whm@arizona.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) (11/09/84)
Has anyone had a chance to do any UNIX benchmarks on the Convex C-1? Bill Mitchell whm.arizona@csnet-relay {noao,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!whm
masson@convex.UUCP (11/21/84)
>Has anyone had a chance to do any UNIX benchmarks on the Convex C-1? > > Bill Mitchell > whm.arizona@csnet-relay > {noao,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!whm We have run quite a number of benchmarks on the C-1. The C-1 is touted as "The World's First Affordable Supercomputer" because of its Cray-like implementation. Because of its integrated vector processing, benchmarks that are highly vectorizable tend to really shine. Typical performance for traditional supercomputer benchmarks (e.g. "Livermore Loops") put the C-1 at about 1/4 of the CRAY, or about 40-60x the VAX. Note that these benchmarks are FORTRAN and take advantage of the Convex FORTRAN compiler, which does vectorization and optimization for you. Bob Masson convex!masson