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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (169442)8/15/2002 12:53:00 PM
From: wanna_bmw  Read Replies (3) of 186894
 
Duke, something isn't right here.

What does "cpu regs : 4" mean? Doesn't Itanium have 128 registers? I looked on the web for other SSL benchmarks on Itanium, and found the following.

myfsi.hp.com
zeus.com

platform architecture processor (Mhz) SSL transactions per sec. 
hp rx4610             Itanium    800  315 
hp L3000              PA-8600    550  145 
hp LP 1000r         Pentium III 1,000 129 
Sun Blade 1000   UltraSPARC III  750  42 
Sun Ultra 80     UltraSPARC II   450  30


This was using 1024-bit RSA. The Hammer received 205.0 in the benchmark from Inquirer, and that somehow looks comparable to these figures.

Here is an update with Itanium 2.

hp.com

In this benchmark, the Itanium 2 900Mhz processor scores 625, while the 1GHz Itanium 2 scores 751. A 1.26GHz Pentium III scores 175.

It appears that Itanium and Itanium 2 do very well with SSL transactions. In fact, the architecture was built for it. I can't verify the results from the Inquirer, but my guess is that they were done with some limiter on the performance of the machine. Maybe 32-bit mode??

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