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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The Killer Micro From Hell
Keywords: cpu starvation, memory bandwidth
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Date: 30 Dec 89 06:15:50 GMT
References: <158@csinc.UUCP> <787@stat.fsu.edu>
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In article <787@stat.fsu.edu> mccalpin@stat.fsu.edu (John Mccalpin) writes:
>By the way, I estimate the the (soon-to-be-installed) FSU Cray
>Y/MP-4/432 will only be about 125 times as fast as the new MIPS "KILLER
>MICRO from HELL" on my code.  Yep, they are closing the gap all right....
You you care to enlighten the masses with regard to the basis for this estimate? 
brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp