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Subject: Re: spice benchmarks
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Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 00:00:53 EST
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>Spice Benchmark results
>
>guy fedorkow, Nov 25, 1985 at bbn
>

   You should try the parallel Spice systems sold by a company called Shiva.
They are based on the Balance 8000 computer manufactured by Sequent Computer
Systems and run a highly parallelized version of Spice written by Shiva. This 
system is much faster than a VAX and probably lower priced.

   Yes, I do work for Sequent. No, I do not officially represent Sequent or
Shiva. (I am just very proud of our systems which beat VAXes hands down in any
contest you want to set up.) I can not even say a whole lot about Shiva. The 
reports of their design that I have heard are very good, but, unfortunately, 
proprietary. You should talk to Shiva or to John Serbin (!tektronix!ogcvax!
sequent!johnj) here at Sequent for official information. I just hate to see
anyone miss out on such a good system just because they haven't heard about
it before.

--Brian M. Godfrey