Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!elwin
From: elwin@athena.mit.edu (Lee W Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Recent Specmarks, please?
Keywords: workstation benchmarks, specmarks
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.001646.12847@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 00:16:46 GMT
Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lines: 19


   Could some kind soul please email (or post) a recent table of
specmarks for workstations? I recall a pretty good table being posted
when the newest HP workstations were announced. Unfortunately I didn't
save it.

   Our lab simulates and eventually constructs dynamically balancing
legged robots. We simulate robots as linkages of multiple rigid bodies
with torques and forces and end up with a lot of dot products and
miscellaneous floating point adds and multiplies. We are looking for a
workstation to simulate more complex robots faster.

   This kind of problem can benefit as much from a smart optimizing
compiler as from a fast CPU, so it would be helpful to know how
different compilers do on the same workstation (I know this is a lot to
ask.) Thanks.

-- 
			elwin@athena.mit.edu