Xref: utzoo comp.sys.hp:8192 comp.arch:21730 comp.benchmarks:495 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!cmcl2!uupsi!sunic!kuling!irf From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.arch,comp.benchmarks Subject: More Snake bytes. Message-ID: <2004@kuling.UUCP> Date: 30 Mar 91 14:58:01 GMT Reply-To: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide') Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden Lines: 97 On popular demand here is a follow-up on my eralier posting with individual SPECmark ratings for the HP Apollo 9000/700 Snake family. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- gcc espr. li eqntott spice doduc nasa7 matrix fpppp tomcatv ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HP9000/730 46.5 55.2 50.3 52.6 60.9 64.0 73.7 273.3 107.0 67.4 HP9000/720 35.2 42.5 36.1 40.6 46.9 48.6 58.0 210.0 81.4 52.9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In John D. McCalpin's (mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu) terms the 264 MB/sec bus speed gives the 720 a "Streaming MFLOPS" rating of 11. Here's John's table from his comp.benchmarks posting (I let John put in the correct Snake figures; an update would be welcome, John!) Performance Summary Table - LINPACK ----------------------------------- MFLOPS MFLOPS MFLOPS MFLOPS Price MFLOPS/Million$ System Peak Max Lnpk Stream $10**6 Max Stream ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM 550 82 62 27 12 0.13 477 92 MIPS RC6280 24 16 10 8 0.20 80 40 IBM 320 40 29 9 6 <0.02 1450 300 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Convex C-210 50 44 17 9 ~0.5 88 18 Convex C-240 200 166 26 36 ~1.6 104 23 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cray Y/MP-1 333 324 25 150 ~3.0 108 50 Cray Y/MP-8 2664 2144 275 1200 ~16.0 134 75 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1xIBM 3090E VF 116 71 13 11 ~3.0 24 4 2xIBM 3090E VF 232 141 26* 22 ~5.0 28 4 3xIBM 3090E VF 348 210 39* 33 ~7.0 30 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SGI 4D/310 10 8 6 3 SGI 4D/380 80 52 48* 3 ~0.20 260 15 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Stardent 3010 32 25 10 6 Stardent 3040 128 77 12 11 ~0.25 308 44 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM 320 40 29 9 6 <0.02 1450 300 8x IBM 320 320 232* 72* 48 0.11 1450* 300 16x IBM 320 640 464* 144* 96 0.21 1450* 300 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (*) indicates extrapolated figures. Here's another comparison table: ==================================================================== The HP 720: How It Stacks Up COMPANY/PRODUCT PRICE MIPS SPEC Price Per Price Per marks MIPS SPECmark Hewlett-Packard/ $12,000 57 55.5 $211 $216 HP 9000 Model 720 IBM/ $9,725 29.5 24.6 $330 $395 RISC System/6000 Model 320 Digital Equipment/ $12,500 27.3 19.9 $458 $628 DECstation 5000 Model 200 MX Sun Microsystems/ $15,000 28.5 21 $526 $714 SPARCstation 2 Units include monochrome monitors and no disks, except for IBM 320, which has a 120-Mbyte disk Sources: "HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 Performance Brief", Companies and UNIX Today! ===================================================================== Many have questioned the statement in my earlier posting that Motif 1.2 will be available for the Snakes. Well, even though I found this stated explicitly in three different official HP publications (HP numbers 5091-0977E, 5091-0979E, and 5091-0980E) I am now inclined to believe that this is a typo. Any official comments from HP on this? Bo --- ^ Bo Thide'-------------------------------------------------------------- |I| Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden |R| Phone: (+46) 18-303671. Telex: 76036 (IRFUPP S). Fax: (+46) 18-403100 /|F|\ INTERNET: bt@irfu.se UUCP: ...!mcvax!sunic!irfu!bt ~~U~~ -----------------------------------------------------------------sm5dfw