Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!purdue!ccncsu!debussy.cs.colostate.edu!rro
From: rro@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (Rod Oldehoeft)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000
Message-ID: <11366@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 24 Nov 90 17:11:55 GMT
References: <2003@mountn.dec.com> <3300212@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU
Organization: Colorado State Computer Science Department
Lines: 30

In article <3300212@m.cs.uiuc.edu> nazief@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>People at Los Alamos ran some benchmarks on RS/6000 and compared their
>performances with those obtained from Sun4, DEC-3100 and a couple of vector
>machines.
>The results were published in their tech. report # LA-11831-MS, "Los Alamos
>Experiences with the IBM RISC SYSTEM/6000 Workstations".

A similar report is in the proceedins of Supercomputing '90, just past:

"Performance Evcaluation of the IBM RISC System/6000:  Comparison of
an Optimized Scalar Processor with Two Vector Processors"

Margaret L. Simmons and Harvey J. Wasserman
Computer Research Group
Computing and Communications Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM  87545

ABSTRACT
RISC System/6000 computers are workstations with a reduced instruction
set processor recently developed by IBM.  This report details the
performance of the 6000-series computers as measured using a set of
portable, standard-Fortran, computationally-intensive benchmark codes
that represent the scientific workload at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory.  On all but three of our benchmark codes, the 40-ns RISC
System was able to perform as well as a single Convex C-240 processor,
a vector processor that also has a 40-ns clock cycle, and on these
same codes, it performed as well as the FPS-500, a vector processor
with a 30-ns clock cycle.