Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!csrdh
From: csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Rowan Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: A benchmark
Keywords: snake performance
Message-ID: <1991May4.052745.26598@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 4 May 91 05:27:45 GMT
References: <1991May3.023705.5616@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991May3.053053.29174@rice.edu> <1991May3.124937.17144@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991May3.154251.8142@rice.edu>
Organization: James Cook University
Lines: 23

Errata for my first two articles:
i.  linpack300x300 should have been linpack100x100.
ii. "coral" should have been "cobra".

HP (Sydney) did the test for the HP9000-720 using the 8.05 compiler
with the new (Kuck?) front-end. The OS was older, 8.02 or 8.01, but that
shouldn't matter since there were no system calls, and no disk I/O.


Another philosophical note to all those
who sent venomous (snake) mail to me:

This application has been developed by ranking US government scientists
for the last 20 years; a LOT of brain power has gone into it.
Its a REAL program being used to solve REAL problems. If that
doesn't constitute a good benchmark, then what the hell does ???
Perhaps a floating point test using awk is more acceptable to the curly
bracket crowd.

-- 
Rowan Hughes                                James Cook University
Marine Modelling Unit                       Townsville, Australia.
Dept. Civil and Systems Engineering         csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au