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From: eboltz@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Eric Scott Boltz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Benchmarks comparing NeXT, Sparc, 80386, Mac II
Message-ID: <7862@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 91 18:45:49 GMT
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In article <27777@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> reberhar@iiic.ethz.ch () writes:
>Hi 
>I'm looking for benchmark test-results between NeXTStation
>and one of the following machines:
>
>  - Sparc 1, 1+, 2
>  - 80386 25/33 MHz PC's
>  - Mac II fx or comparable

A friend of mine at NASA/Langley wrote a F77 program which models heat
flow around a crack in a solid. We f2c'd it and timed it on a '030 cube
running NS 2.0, a '040 running 2.0, and a Mac IIfx (40MHz '030).
The results were:
Machine          Time
NeXT 030         ~23:00
Mac IIfx         ~18:00
NeXT 040         ~ 5:10

As far as I know they (at NASA were going to run it on a 386, 486 and the 
Sun SPARCs they have, but I haven't seen the results. I can arrange to send
the orig. FORTRAN probably if anyone wants it.


Eric S. Boltz
102 Maryland Hall
Materials Science and Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD  21218
(eboltz@cndenext.mrs.jhu.edu)


>
>-- rolf