[ILUG] gloating

[Brady, Padraig]

Hmm,

The BogoMIPS figure I gave, actually
does this machine a huge injustice,
especially if yer doing any floating point.

I'll look into getting SPECint_2000
and SPECfp_2000 for it. The fp is
going to be mental!

just to confirm it's has 12 1GHz CPUs.

By the way alpha has it's own equivalent
to mmx instructions called MVI (Motion 
Video Instructions).

Padraig.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liam Bedford [mailto:lbedford at wbtsystems.com]
> Sent: 23 June 2000 16:02
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] gloating
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 03:55:21PM +0100, David Murphy came 
> forth with:
> > Quoting 
> <C45048E5BA68D011ACE708002BE623F204ED1712 at ilo-exc-1.ilo.cpqcorp.net>
> > by "McDaid, Aaron" <Aaron.McDaid at compaq.com>:
> > 
> > > > Just want to gloat a bit :-)
> > > > 17880.32 BogoMIPS, yahoo!
> > > > <snip>
> > > > BogoMIPS                : 1488.97
> > > > kernel unaligned acc    : 17852
> > > 
> > > you mixed yourself up a bit i think
> > > you only have 1488 BogoMIPS
> > > now who's gloating ;)
> > 
> > Any chance of some real benchmarks?
> dunno, but someone on debian-alpha has a quad EV67 machine, which
> is similar, and it takes 20 mins for him to rebuild XFree86 4...
> 
> not sure how that compares, but the thing about alpha's is the
> ridiculous floating point (the 500Mhz 21164 with an optimized lame
> encodes mp3's in about 3-5 times realtime, without anything like
> MMX to help it)