nelson_r@apollo.UUCP (Rolf Nelson) (08/21/87)
In article <382@nikhefh.UUCP> i91@nikhefh.UUCP (Fons Rademakers) writes: >In article <1401@ssc-vax.UUCP> benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes: > >>I am surprised no one has mentioned the price cuts on >>the DN3000 in this newsgroup. Apollo's price cuts puts >>it in a fairly competitive position. > >And that no one mentioned the new DN4000. What is its speed improvement >over the DN3000. Does anybody have Whetstone and/or Drystone results? > Here are the current benchmark numbers for many of the popular benchmarks. Note, the Single Precision Benchmarks (i.e., SP WHetstone and SP LINPACK) for the DN5xxT FPX are with the FPX in it's "Single Precision" Precision Mode (it's default precision mode is double). Apollo Benchmark Results for sr9.6 - June 18, 1987 Dhrystone V1.1 Whetstone LINPACK SPICE2G ESPRESSO (kwhets/sec) (kflops/sec) (reg == noreg) SP DP SP DP mosamp2 composite ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DN5xxT FPX 5660 3930 2486 780 431 46 (sec) 832 (sec) DN5xxT 5660 1487 1223 115 102 72 854 DN4000 7109 2170 1744 166 142 50 632 DN3000 3092 1022 820 81 72 93 1314 Dale LaBossiere Apollo Computer 330 Billerica Rd. UUCP: {mit-erl,yale,uw-beaver,decvax}!apollo!labo || labo@apollo.uucp Chelmsford Ma. 01824 ARPA: apollo!labo@eddie.mit.edu -------