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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: missing Dhrystone 2.1 (1 of 3 &
Message-ID: <2632@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 88 17:14:02 GMT
References: <4232@cbmvax.UUCP> <76700035@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1988Jul18.231331.19575@utzoo.uucp> <22406@amdcad.AMD.COM> <9amsvb52K11010cyawo@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <9a0K/cbluk1010IHSPc@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <9a0K/cbluk1010IHSPc@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons) writes:
...
>Cray machines are optimized for programs that require lots of
>memory (say 1 Gbyte or so), floating point computations, and vector
>computations.  Amdahl machines are optimized for smaller amounts
>of memory (say 256 Mbytes), and scalar processing that is
>non-floating-point intensive...

You're being modest.  I thought Amdahls were designed for general
purpose performance across a wide range of programs, certainly including
integer and and scalar floating point, not that vector FP is
particularly shabby.
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