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From: perry@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Perry Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000 s 700 questions ????
Message-ID: <5570591@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 91 21:15:49 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>>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?

Take it easy, Andy.  :-)

The RS/6000 540 is $100K.  It is quite a bit more configurable, and
may have better server performance, too.  None of the benchmarks
really test that, so it doesn't show up well in the numbers charts.

It is correct to say the 700 is the current price/performance leader in
the 50-100 MIP class.  See the front-page chart on a recent EE Times.

Perry