[email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) writes: > Surely, when comparing technologies hardware and software from other > vendors should not be considered off-charter.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#62 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#64 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#88 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues Stretch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch Harvest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7950_Harvest End of IBM Advanced Computing Systems ... includes Amdahls account of IBM executives terminating the project because they were afraid that it might advanced computing state-of-the-art too fast and they would loose control of the market ... at the end, it discusses some of the acs-360 features that show up more than 20yrs later in es/9000 http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html because I had lots of access to early engineering 4341 ... i was periodically asked to do benchmarks ... including LLNL looking at having 70 4341 in a compute farm (4341 environmentals made it possible to deploy out in departmnental areas ... sort of leading edge of the coming distributed computing tsunmai ... and its price/performance got it increasing use for compute farms ... sort of the coming cluster supercomputers). ... some old 4341 email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx POK 3033 management at one point felt so threatened by 4341 cluster compute farms that they got internal allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component cut in half recent post with old 158, 3031, 4341 comparisons for LLNL (about same as 3031 & 1/4-1/3 faster than 370/158) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#61 I Must Have Been Dreaming (36-bit word needed for ballistics?) above also has numbers for 145, 168-3, 360/91 and cdc6600 (original commercial "supercomputer") 370/158 & vax have been used as baseline for Dhrystone benchmarks ... both doing appox. same number of iterations/sec ... considered to be approx. 1MIPS. some recent posts about BIPS benchmark comparisons: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe! http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe! http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#27 IBM sells x86 server business to Levono http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#102 CPU time http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
