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Technology Stocks : Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)
SGI 91.87+1.8%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST
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To: Jerry Whlan who wrote (3653)11/23/1997 1:52:00 AM
From: rumboman   of 14451
 
To Jerry:
The following material is from Sun's press release about its
benchmarks:

The single system SPEC95 results were performed on a 64 CPU Starfire
server running the highly robust Solaris 2.5.1 operating environment and
configured with 4 megabytes (MB) E-cache. The server configuration
included 16 gigabytes (GB) memory and 189 GB of Sun(TM) RSM Array(TM)
2000 storage. The Starfire server achieved 4289 SPECint_rate_base95 and
4945 SPECint_rate95 integer processing performance. The same system,
configured with 18 GB of Sun RSM Array 2000 storage, measured 5417
SPECfp_rate_base95 and 6013 SPECfp_rate95 floating-point processing
performance. The SPECint_rate95 results are 186% faster than the nearest
competitive results, by SGI'S Origin 2000, and demonstrate the Starfire
system's ability to achieve the enormous capacity throughput required
for floating-point and integer intensive applications.

I may be missing something but it appears that Sun is comparing
its 64 cpu machine against SGI's 32 cpu machine while implying
that the comparison is to an equivalent SGI machine. I do not know
what exactly is standard operating procedure in computer vendor
business practices; however, in its next press release, I expect
Sun to compare its high end machines to my little laptop.
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