On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Michael G Hart wrote:
> I am under the impression that a 500 MHz Alpha is faster that a 500 MHz
> Pentium II (If you could get a 500Mhz Pentium II). You would happen to
> know where I could find the spec marks for these two processors? I am at a
> critical juncture where I need to make a decision on whether I will be
> clustering Alpha's or Pentium II motherboards. I don't want to mix the two
> in our cluster. Basically If I looking at the price/performance ration.
>
For floating point intensive calculations, that is true. My 533 SX
alpha is not much faster than a P5-166 for every day stuff like loading
X, Netscape, etc. But, for numerical calculations in Matlab, it's
easily faster than PII-233 I use at work, and the Matlab benchmarks show
it to be within the top two or three computers that Mathworks benched.
Jiann-Ming Su "People seldom do what they believe in. They do
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