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To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (4966)6/10/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: Patrick Gainer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14451
 
>> I would extrapolate from this data that
>> a 8 processor 200 Mhz Pentium Pro system
>> would be faster

>One woman can have a baby in 9 months. From this I would >extrapolate that 18 women could have a baby in just two weeks.
>
>Ain't math grand? Not all problems scale linearly

True however TPC-D is one of those benchmarks which
does scale extremely well. Indeed, there are already
results available using up to 256 cpus.

Pat



To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (4966)6/11/1998 7:03:00 PM
From: THop  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14451
 
Is SGI going to publish a TPC-D 300GB or 1TB
Benchmark? We could then compare it to some larger
Intel or Sun systems and see how well it scales.


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