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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8173)	10/27/2000 2:34:08 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 14451

Wow, it really is green cheese, Maria, I feel much better. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8173)	10/27/2000 3:52:01 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

I decided to look again at the current cpu2000 benchmarks to see what's who. It's been a while and Mr. Bishop did mention 3k benchmarking well.... spec.org Damn, I was surprised at how well SGI 2k and 3k's with r12 400 mhz were doing. Looking at the rate benchmarks. I came to the following supositions. Sgi has only published specs about system with more than 32 cpu up to systems with 128. Sgi only, knows how to do bigger than 32 with linear performance per cpu. Sgi system performance per processor or cpu within 10% of same cpu's for Hp and Compaq. Compaq max of 32 cpu and Hp max of 8 CPU. SGI performance 33% better performance than sun. Sun max of 4 cpu. Sgi performance 31+% better than IBM. IBM 16 max cpu. SGI stuff is benchmarking outstanding..... If a company is looking for solving problems and values the ability to easily scale flops. SGI is the only outstanding value. Most likely personel who do this kind of nerdy stuff are more likely to be familiar with SGI or Linux and IMHO having cross ported many a program, SGI irix is the most Linux like Unix. At the low end of big problems let look at 4 cpu. Company Name System Name #CPUBasePeakFull SGI SGI Origin 3200 4X 400MHz R12k 4 15.1 16.3 IBM Corporation RS/6000 44P-270 (4 CPU) 4 10.8 11.3 IBM Corporation RS/6000 Model 7026-H80 (4 CPU) 4 10.8 11.3 IBM Corporation IBM eServer pSeries 640 (4 MB L2) 4 10.7 11.7 IBM Corporation RS/6000 SP-375MHz High Node(4 CPU) 4 10.6 11.6 Sun Microsystems Sun Enterprise 450 4 10.4 10.9 Hewlett Packard CorpHP 9000 Model N4000 4 16.5 17.0 Compaq has 1 16 and 32 cpu models for the 16 Compaq Computer CorpAlphaServer GS160 Model 6/731 16 63.1 69.9 Sgi 16 SGI SGI Origin 3400 16X 400MHz R12k 16 60.5 65.3 IBM Corporation RS/6000 SP-375MHz High Node(16 CPU) 16 41.7 46.0 Tom Watson tosiwmee