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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: The Killer Micro From Hell
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Date: 20 Dec 89 03:39:20 GMT
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Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
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Well, at SC'89 I speculated that the MIPS R6000, specifically in the MIPS 6280
box but then that doesn't really matter, would perform at roughly 2.5 times the
speed of the XMP 4/16 CPU one some of my favorite SCALAR compute bound
applications which I have burned some serious computer time on in the recent
few years.

The XMP 4/16 is the "fast one" for those that don't know, and the YMP is only
30% faster than the XMP 4/16 on the code in question.

Well guys, I WAS WRONG!  I wish to APOLOGIZE for for the terrible error!

The 6280, and when I was given permission to share this bit of data I was
also told to inform you that this was a preliminary result on a pre-production
machine, has run at 3.3 times the performance of the XMP 4/16 CPU on a SCALAR
packet switched network simulator.

The R6000 is probably, for the very short fleeting moment in the lifetime of
a KILLER MICRO, the FASTEST UNIPROCESSOR COMPUTER IN THE WORLD on this code.

Of course, we have to keep in mind that this years Killer Micro is next
years Lawn Sprinkler Controller, but what a year it has been and what a year
the coming one will be!

           NO ONE WILL SURVIVE THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS!

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