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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000 s 700 questions ????
Message-ID: <2011@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 91 16:39:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.121715.25269@qut.edu.au> <5570591@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <5570591@hpfcdc.HP.COM> perry@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Perry Scott) writes:
>>>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?
>



In my opinion the HP9000/730 22.9 MFLOPS *and* 91 SPECfp's makes it
faster on FP than the IBM 550 25.2 MFLOPS and 79 SPECfp's.

If you're not satisfied with one 730 you can buy at least 5 more
and run them together -- at the same cost as one 550...

Bo

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