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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: chewing up mips with graphics
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Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 11:40:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 11:40:46 1987
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Keywords: simulation processors parrallelism MIPS

>In article <2194@mmintl.UUCP>, franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>> In article <6328@beta.UUCP> dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) writes:
>> >Does somebody REALLY think we are going to run out of work before
>> >we run out of MIPS? Fat chance.
>> ....  It is true that a 100-fold increase in
>> power in the next 3 months would create a temporary overcapacity; one it
>> might take a couple of years to make much use of.  But I see no sign of such
>

Actually, I have given some thought to this temporary overcapacity as a
useful measure.  It took 3 weeks before one of our X-MPs (A 4-CPU
upgrade) became saturated.  I think this might give a useful measurement
on the derviative of user usage.  Other sites using other smaller CPUs
reported at SIGMETRICS that their machine became saturated at the 3
month mark.  This makes a lot of assumptions, but I feel that it makes
a somewhat useful subjective measure.

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--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
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