brewer@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) (06/30/90)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: mips and mflops Summary: Expires: References: <28360@super.ORG> Sender: Reply-To: brewer@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) Followup-To: Distribution: usa Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Keywords: >Rating a Vax 780 as a 1, then, our Convex C1 comes in at about 5 and >our Cray 2 varies from a 3 to a 25. This is, of course, only speed, and does >not take into account the big memory on the Cray; if memory is a necessity, >sometimes one has to go to the Cray even if it's slower than a Sun workstation. >I suggest we leave the floor open for discussing *all* kinds of large scale >computing, ok? That way all of us who have consumed 22 Cray-2 cpu-months >will feel welcome. > >Duncan Buell Supercomputing Research Center >duncan@super.org Bowie, Maryland 20715 The CM-2 does 2,500 MIPS and 1,500 MIPS for 64-bit integer adds. Memory bandwidth is 300 Gbits/sec. When the new 4Mbit DRAMS are shipped it will max out to 8GB. The new C* and Fortran compilers on Sun 4 front-ends should make using it not too bad compared to a Cray. Have you thought about the CM-2? The references for this info are Parallel Supercomputing in SIMD architectures by R. Michael Hord (He mentions the SRC as a CM-2 64K site) and TMC customer support group. Peter brewer@umd5.umd.edu P.S. How's that for references Eugene? -- Peter W. Brewer GRAD STUDENT : BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again!! Quote: One of the biggest mistakes I made was listening to 'articulate incompetents..' so convincing with their viewgraphs and prose.. but they were wrong!!! (David Mallory on Corporate Management in the 90's)