On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 11:19:36AM -0500, 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.
Tell me your application and I tell you what hardware can do the job ...
We've recently done experiments with fp intensive calculations and our
cluster 50 x 666MHz 21164, 256mb, diskless + Quad Xeon as fileserver did
perform very impressively. Check out QuantX's Alpha systems.
Ralf
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