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To: Petz who wrote (98234)	3/13/2000 3:10:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1580688

Petz- Re: "Did you know that Athlon is 100% faster than Pentium III in LINPACK, a common benchmark used to compare supercomputers?" No I didn't. Just what SuperComputer using AThWipers was this measured on ? Paul

To: Petz who wrote (98234)	3/13/2000 10:06:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580688

Petz, do you have a ref on the Athlon being 100% faster in LINPACK? I'd find that quite encouraging, going forward. Not my area, but I think LINPACK is one of these old line supercomputer type of number crunching things, linear algebra and matrix oriented. If the Athlon stands up well there, I'd take it as an indication that the AMD SIMD (3dNow) implementation works pretty well. Cheers, Dan.

To: Petz who wrote (98234)	3/13/2000 12:30:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580688

Petz: Re: Did you know that Athlon is 100% faster than Pentium III in LINPACK, a common benchmark used to compare supercomputers? Please provide a link for this - a search for "linpack" on AMD's web site shows nothing for the K7. developer.intel.com is the link for Intel's linpack performance on a 733 MHz Pentium III processor (and dual processors - where are AMD's dual-processor linpack results?). Adam

To: Petz who wrote (98234)	3/13/2000 3:13:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580688

Petz, I went looking for linpack perf figures on my own and found the following: inqst.com . It's maybe not quite right to say Athlon is twice as fast on LINPACK, but then again, maybe it is, depending on conditions and size of data sets. My reading is the performance here has more to do with memory system limitations than raw processor speed . Mostly, this particular piece seems to make Rambus look sick, yet again, Nice stock to own, though. Personally, I still think AMD's got to push big for DDR and better chipsets. If AMD is lucky, Intel will continue to give desktop customers "what they want" with Rambus, but it's best to push any advantage to the limit. I don't trust Via to deliver, either. Cheers, Dan.