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From: mat@uts.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: superscalar
Message-ID: <14FU029t326G01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 5 Jun 89 15:27:59 GMT
References: <26356@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <26356@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, brooks@maddog.llnl.gov writes:
>                          ...  On a radiation transport Monte Carlo code,
> which is something we routinely crunch on supercomputers like the Cray
> machines, that wimpy little i860 with an alpha compiler outran the
> Cray 1S by 10% or so.

I presume this code doesn't vectorize well (or at all?)  What % vector
is it on the Cray?  Just curious....
-- 
Mike Taylor                               ...!{hplabs,amdcad,sun}!amdahl!mat

[ This may not reflect my opinion, let alone anyone else's.  ]