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To: Elmer who wrote (99560)2/20/2000 6:29:00 PM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Ref-A dual ISSE2 unit at 1.4 GHz, the clockspeed at which the fastest Willamette will ship (Q4 2000), would boast a peak of no less than 2 x 4 (SIMD) x 1.4 GHz = 11.2 billion floating-point operations per second (or FLOPS)!

If the above information is correct, how will Willamette compare againt other RISC processors like Alpha, Sparc, PowerPC etc in terms of floating point benchmarks ?



To: Elmer who wrote (99560)2/20/2000 6:33:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Elmer, I was kidding the other day about 6 instructions per cycle, at 1.5 billion cycles per second, producing 9 billion instructions per second. Now Ace is saying 11.2? That's more than one per cycle with 6 pipelines, which I don't think Willamette has. What am I missing?

Tony


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