RE: [GENERAL] Performance

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99039.ecsuperlinux.htm

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jackson, DeJuan wrote:

> I'd like to see that URL. :)
> -DEJ
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy(at)hub(dot)org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:43 PM
> > To: Dustin Sallings
> > Cc: Jason; 'psql'; Aaron Holtz (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Performance
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > >
> > > # Using the rc5 client as a 'benchmark' (what else has
> > programmers working
> > > # hard to optimize their code to get the best numbers on
> > it?), we found
> > > # that when comparing a Dual-PII 450 against an Sparc
> > E450/400Mhz, the
> > > # E450 came in at ~30% less powerful then the Dual-PII ...
> > >
> > > That's a *horrible* benchmark. How often do your servers sit
> > > around doing math inside of cache? This isn't raytracing.
> >
> > My servers do more math inside of cache then they do
> > raytracing...
> > :)
> >
> > Anyway, regardless...for the price of that one Sparc E450 we
> > picked up, I could pick up *easily* a dozen Dual-PII 450
> > servers, and run
> > something like Beowulf on it to do the raytracing...
> >
> > Wait, isn't that what IBM just did? Built a Beowulf cluster of
> > Netfnity servers for ~$150k, that outperformed a $5.5Million
> > Cray? And, I
> > *thought* they did something like raytracing with it...I
> > can't remmeber
> > the full article, but it was ... enlightening. If you want me to dig
> > aruond and find the URL to it, please ask...
> >
> > > It's nicknamed ``Slowaris'' for the same reason FreeBSD is
> > > nicknamed, ``FleaBeastie'' and Linux is nicknamed
> > ``Linsux'' and HP-UX is
> > > nicknamed ``HP-SUX'' etc...
> > >
> >
> > Welp, I've been educated today then...I didn't know FreeBSD or
> > Linux had nicknames :)
> >
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664
> > IRC Nick: Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> > primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary:
> > scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
> >
> >
>

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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