----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mersenne@Base. Com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:48 PM
Subject: RE: Mersenne: Alpha DS20 timings.
> > Compaq have a DS20 Alpha with 2 500MHz 21264 CPUs on the internet for
> > people to try out.
> <snip>
> > and for the 10^n digit fans:
> >
> > % ./MacLucasUNIX -C -S 10 33219281
> > speed: 10 iters in 4.634 seconds, 0.463 iters/sec (fft len 1024k)
> > % ./MacLucasUNIX -C -S 3 332192831
> > speed: 3 iters in 65.950 seconds, 21.983 iters/sec (fft len 16384k)
> >
> > The machine "only" had 1GB of RAM, and the 16M FFT took up about 675MB
> > of RAM. I couldn't test any larger numbers :-)
>
> Just like I thought...the 21264 really is a monster.
>
> Compaq had a few of their REALLY nice boxes at the engineer conference
last
> week in Toronto. I desperately wanted to run some benchmarks, but
something
> told me that I shouldn't run software on these machines without asking
> permission... hmmm..
>
> Can't wait to get me one of them boxes!
>
> Aaron
>
> ps - Is anyone else besides me happy that Compaq is ditching that boring
old
> "computer beige" in favor of the "opal" (basically white) color for their
> servers? I think they look snazzy.
>
But do they have fins and feet and top-knots?
(Hard drives have gotten big enought that "fatware" had to move to the
cases.)
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