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From: iarrobin@wookie.east.sun.com (Mike Iarrobino - Systems Engineer)
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Subject: Re: Speed of SPARC 330/370
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Date: 9 Aug 90 18:03:56 GMT
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In article <1990Aug9.022829.7925@rice.edu>, bauman@shell.com (Evan G. Bauman) writes:
>
>The SPARC 330 and 370 are rated at 2.7 MFlops.  Now I find this
>incredible.  We have a 330 and a 370 and my Linpack test only yields
>1.7-1.8 MFlops.  In fact, here's the verbatim results directly from Mr.
>Dongarra's benchmark.  This is from a SPARC 370 workstation, with FORTRAN
>1.2, compiled with f77 -O.

I believe these performance numbers were obtained using the latest FORTRAN
compiler 1.3 at the highest optimization level (-fast -O4).  The default
for -O is -O2 which is a compromise between optimization and compile time.

Michael V. Iarrobino
EMail:	mike.iarrobino@East.Sun.COM