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From: roelof@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Vuurboom)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: specmarks
Summary: specmarks published
Message-ID: <327@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 23 Oct 89 10:38:37 GMT
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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A trade rag here in holland announced that spec (system performance
evaluation cooperative) has published some benchmark results (so where
are they, Mashey? :-). These were the figures it gave:


Machine		Processor	Clock(Mhz)	Time(sec)	Specmark

Mips M/2000	R3000		25		235.0		16.5
Moto 8864DP	88100(2x)	20		511,8		15.1
Apollo DN10000	Prism		18.2		267.0		14.5
Sun Sparc 330	CYC7C601?	25		343.7		11.3
Mips M/120-5	R2000		16.67		345.3		11.2
Decstation 3100	R2000		16.67		381.4		10.1
HP9000 834	PA-RISC		15		408.0		9.5
Mips RC2030	R2000		16.67		417.6		9.3
Sun Sparc I	MB86901?	20		468.5		8.3
Moto 8864SP	88100		20		473,3		8.2
Moto 8608	88100		20		496.5		7.8
Decstation 2100	R2000		12.5		518.7		7.5
HP9000 370	68030		33		980.3		3.0
HP9000 340	68030		16.67		2432.4		1.6
Vax 11/780							1.0

The rag also said that the first version of the benchmarks consisted of 
about 10 C and Fortran programs that measured integer and floating point
perfomance. Future benchmarks would measure other aspects of applications
such as the performance of disks, graphics and networking.
Furthermore, benchmarks were in preparation for measurement of system
performance in multi-user and networked environments.

No mention was made of whether or not floating point coprocessors were 
used where applicable.

Also note that the anomalous value of the 8864DP (511,15.1) has to do
with a dual processor implementation.

Ok, guys 'n gals, start analyzing...:-)

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