Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!nsc!grenley
From: grenley@nsc.nsc.com (George Grenley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune
Message-ID: <5066@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 16 May 88 22:02:07 GMT
Reply-To: grenley@nsc.UUCP (George Grenley)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Looks like we're in for some fun now.  Time to re-open 

            "Bar Wars"

wherein the participants all bring their iron to a neighborhood tavern
and we see who's fastest...loser buys.

In article <324@mipseast.mips.COM> rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>In article <5062@nsc.nsc.com> grenley@nsc.UUCP (George Grenley) writes:
>>The VME532 offers the highest integer and floating point performance you
>>can get in a board level product available now. 
>
>I assume you mean the highest performance in a '532 board, unless it is
>faster than the MIPS R2800 (10 VAX MIPS, 1.6 DP FORTRAN LINPACK MFLOPS,
>23,700 Dhrystones), a VMEbus board product.

Okay, but one question: What basis do you use for calling it 10 VAX MIPS?
If it's 23,700 Dhrystones, it's more like 15 VAX MIPS...

Sounds like a neat board.  We want to buy one for comparison.  What's the
order number, price, and delivery date?

BTW, if you want a VME532 for comparison, order NSV-V532A-KF25, at $7800.
They're in the warehouse - although I expect to sell out soon.


Let's have our benchmark race one of these days.  We're all within half
a mile of each other, georgraphically.

Regards,
George Grenley