Herbert Wengatz 42850 wrote:
> An AMD 500 Athlon is abaout as fast as a 550 MHz PIII in the integer area,
> and when doing floatingpoint calculations, even a 600 MHz PIII can't catch
> up with the 500 MHz AMD.
Hmm, but do we trust AMD to build a stable FPU?
More importantly though (because we already know that Intel isn't
exactly error-free on the FPU front), will codes that are P-II/P-III
optimised for floating-point run quickly on the Athlon?
We use quite a few Intel boxes here for number crunching, and if I
continue to be unable to persuade management to shift to Alphas instead,
I'm going to be looking very closely at the AMD chips. But is anyone in
this forum using Athlons for scientific number-crunching yet?
Neil
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