Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!rutgers!mephisto!udel!nigel.ee.udel.edu!mccalpin From: mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: SPECmarks for RS/6000 systems - lies??? Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 13:07:06 GMT References: <4734@lure.latrobe.edu.au> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: College of Marine Studies, U. Del. Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: perelandra.cms.udel.edu In-reply-to: CCHD@lure.latrobe.edu.au's message of 4 Oct 90 09:50:31 GMT > On 4 Oct 90 09:50:31 GMT, CCHD@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies) said: Huw> "There also seems to be a problem with replicating IBM's RS6000 Huw> SPECmark results, and with achieving the expected levels of Huw> performance with other code. [....] Huw> Would anyone from IBM (or anywhere else for that matter) like Huw> to comment? The LINPACK 100x100 results are known to be valid. In fact, I have never gotten results quite as slow as those quoted in the advertisements --- but then I have not been trying too hard either.... -- John D. McCalpin mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu Assistant Professor mccalpin@vax1.udel.edu College of Marine Studies, U. Del. J.MCCALPIN/OMNET