Posted by Nigel Topham on November 18, 1997 at 17:27:07:
In Reply to: PC Desktop Boxes posted by Adam Donlin on November 11, 1997 at 15:42:14:
: If heavy duty processing is needed, then I'd argue that's
: better done on a fast server (eg canna/havra).
This might interest you:
The CS2 Linux machines have P200MMX processors, which
gives them comparable CPU performance to that of a
Sun Ultra 170 (excluding floating point operations - which
do not dominate a typical DCS workload anyway).
Processor SpecInt95 e.g.
--------------------------------------
Sun Ultra-170 6.26 canna
Pentium P200 MMX 6.44 any CS2 machine
The SpecInt95 performance of a 300 MHz Pentium-II,
is 11.7
More revealing data at the CSG meeting on Thursday...
- Nigel.
P.S. For those who may not have come across SpecInt95,
it is a collection of CPU-bound benchmark programs
(e.g. go, mksim, li, jpeg, perl, vortex, gcc). The
number basically tells you how much faster the benchmarked
system is compared to a Sun SS-10/40. So, a P-II at
300 MHz is about 11 times faster than an SS-10/40.