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From: xxrich@alliant1 (Rich Rinehart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.alliant
Subject: Re: etime complex user time variance
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.191220.1769@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 30 Jul 90 19:12:20 GMT
References: <1990Jul26.153317.7801@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <11052@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Reply-To: xxrich@alliant1.lerc.nasa.gov (Rich Rinehart)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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In article <11052@odin.corp.sgi.com> dereks@aggie.sgi.com (Derek Spears) writes:
>
>	Is your job locked into a CE? If not (as in the case of a program
>compiled under pcc), the program could float onto IP's, which run much
>slower. This random "floating about" to different type processors could
>account for etime differences.

good point, but my question was regarding complex work (see subject).  I have
also noticed much variance (2x ?) in user time on individual ce's (FORTRAN jobs 
though, which will not run on the ip's).



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