Re: Hammer

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b j smith ieee org>]

W Bauske wrote:
> This is off topic but I've used Athlon, Athlon MP, PIII, and P4's, and
> I can say that for my production codes, P4 is king. Itanium is very good
> for it's clock rate from what I've read, and if you truly want the fastest
> microprocessor, price no object, buy the new Power4 based IBM pSeries
> 690 Turbo. It's SpecFP2000 is 1169. Alphas aren't particularly close
> at 784. (DS20E/833 is the fastest Alpha at SpecFP2000)

I find the SpecFP of the Alpha and Athlon to be severely
underrated.  I don't know if it is the bus, exclusive caching or
what, but I have build P3, P4 and Athlon Linux clusters and the
Athlons beat the P3 by 40%, MHz for MHz, and upto double against the
P4, MHz or MHz.  Of course all my applications are engineering and
use double precision floating point.

As far as the PowerPC and Power4, you don't have to sell me.  ;-PPP

-- TheBS

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