madhu@hubcap.UUCP (Raman Madhusudan) (11/08/88)
Greetings: No Comp.sys.alliant or whatever exists. My sincere apologies at the outset for probably posting this article to all the wrong groups. Does anyone out there use an "ALLIANT" computer belonging to the FX series. (?) These (mini- SUPER)computers supposedly runsomething called concentrix which is a "full native port of the Berkeley Unix ..". Q2: How portable are programs written in FX/FORTRAN or FX/C to other machines? The FX/40 (with 4 vector processors) is supposed to offer 94.4 MFLOPS and over 14Mwhetstones per processor . Q3: Has anyone out there actually have this thing banchmarked independently ? If you are using this series of machines or know someone who does, Could you please e-mail me some info. ? (Please) Q4: How buggy is this concentrix (0. Not bad 1. Something like 4.0 from SUN 2. Real Bad 3. Dont' touch it ) ? Q5: How good is Alliant's System Support (0. Bad 1. OK 2.Good 3. As good as SUN's 4. I love them ) Q6: How fast is their FORTRAN when compared to straightforward execution on VAX8650's onwards (8810's etc) running a. VMS b. ULTRIX and on other Workstations/SuperMinis ? --- Please e-mail replies to madhu@hubcap.clemson.edu. Please do not post informative replies to the newsgroups because i am sure all the ones i am posting to are inappropriate. My sincere apologies again but there is nowhere else to get unbiased info. from! --madhu@hubcap.clemson.edu (Internet works great except when those nasty worms are around). ************************************* * Disclaimer: This is not for me. It is * Somebody who needs to make a decision. * I do not make decisions. So please * HELP! NO FLAMES PLEASE. **************************************