Gordon Bower wrote:-
>Kinda depressing when you look at how little we are gaining from the new
>accounts that have come into the effort the past couple months.... though
>it may well be there are machines that have not yet reported their first
>result and are dragging down the averages a bit.
I joined in July and have several UltraSPARCs at work, well over a
1000 hours of CPU time so far. But no results yet and I'm not expecting
any for at least another month or possibly more. When I joined I didn't
have any idea what the differences between a Pentium and an UltraSPARC
would be in this work.
The Intel code is very highly optimised. From the figures given on
the manual checkout page and my results to date a 270MHz UltraSPARC
runs like a 120MHz Pentium. But that's only becuase I've tweaked the
compiler options will help from people on this list. Initially it
was performing more like a 90Mhz Pentium. I had over a 1000 hours
at the lower speed before recompiling.
The results will come, but not as fast as I first thought. I may
have to ask for extentions of time on some exponents, but they'll
get done.
Bill Rea, Information Technology Services, University of Canterbury \_
E-Mail b dot rea at its dot canterbury dot ac dot nz </ New
Phone 64-3-364-2331, Fax 64-3-364-2332 /) Zealand
Unix Systems Administrator (/'
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