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From: defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000 s 700 questions ????
Message-ID: <48580007@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 18:14:37 GMT
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>/ hpcupt3:comp.sys.hp / jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) /  2:20 pm  Mar 30, 1991 /

>   HP9000/720 (Cobra):  Linpack Double Precision: 17 MFLOPS
>   HP9000/730 (King Cobra):  Linpack Double Precision: 22 MFLOPS
>   HP9000/750 (Coral):  Linpack Double Precision: 22 MFLOPS
>
>   This is for HP-UX 8.05.  For HP-UX 8.01 these figures may be a
>   bit lower (15 MFLOPS for the 720, I think).  Still, the fastest
>   FP workstation around.
>
>Hardly.  The IBM RS/6000 Models 550 and 950 give 25.2 MFLOPS, or
>79.0 SPECfp's.  The Stardent 750 gives 25 MFLOPS on vectorizable
>code, such as Linpack (SPECfp unknown to me).

I'm not positive of the numbers so perhaps you are right but I must ask:
How much does one of them IBM RS/6000 Model 550's costs?  How much is the
HP9000/730?