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- From: pack@acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman)
- Subject: Who wants faster machines was DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.162956.2990@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Summary: We want faster machines
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- Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research - Atmospheric Chemistry Div
- References: <BxM81s.LxL@apollo.hp.com> <1992Nov18.012919.2493@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:29:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.012919.2493@cs.uow.edu.au> pdg@cs.uow.edu.au (Peter Gray) writes:
- >
- >Which nicely ties in with my opinion of the "Specmark race"
- >which is "who cares?". At our site we have ~100 SUN's.
- >No HP, no DEC, no RS6000. How many of our SUN users want
- >a faster machine? About 2. For the rest 10 Mips (SS1 type speed)
- >is plenty.... How many banks need 100 Mips on peoples desktops?
- >
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- As has been said, who cares if the payroll program that runs overnight
- takes 8 hours or 8 minutes? Indeed, in certain situations speed is
- not that important. For us, however, we find present algorithms still
- limited by the speed of processors available. With faster machines,
- still more complex calculations become possible. I cannot forsee a
- faster machine that will be perceived by scientific institutions as
- irrelevant.
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