Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
11 Dec 1998 12:21:28 +0100

In dist.linux.kernel, article <913299467.30898@noris.de>,
Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:
> David S. Miller <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> wrote:
> > Yawn, stretch...
> >
> > bash# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> I thought this was neat, so forwarded it to a few friends.
> One of them replied with:
> http://www.compaq.com/newsroom/pr/pr101198b.html
>
You have strange friends. ;-)

Anyway, this Compaq thing seems to consist of 72 CPUs...
not exactly a good comparison. Worse, these things run NT.

NB, the test is to sort a terabyte in 50 minutes. Minimum required hard
disk thruput: 670 MBytes/second, or 48 MBytes/second per CPU. Hmmm. David's
box may be neat, but I doubt he can top that today... maybe next year?

NB2, the note, as usual, leaves out a few facts, like how long the records
are. I too can sort a terabyte in half a second, but only when I specify
that the record length is at least a GByte and that records consist
entirely of random data. Not very useful. ;-)

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