>Dual Alpha? No my dual P3 is doing just fine thank you.
You think a dual PIII is even vaguely comparable to a dual Alpha? And yet you call me a twit? Go find a clue, It's not even close. You can start with those SpecFP benchmarks.
Here I'll help you out:
http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/cfp2000.html
##################################### base peak
Compaq Computer Corp AlphaServer ES40 Model 6/833 1 590 658
####### Intel Corp. Intel OR840 (1 GHz Pentium III) 1 327 335
Here are the FP rates.
This shows how well the SMP architecture scales.
########################## #CPU base peak
Compaq AlphaServer ES40 Model 6/833 1 6.84 7.63
Compaq AlphaServer ES40 Model 6/833 4 24.3 26.1
Scaling Factor 3.55 3.42
I couldn't find any Intel numbers on this page. Wonder why?
Because Intel SMP scaling sucks.
Oh, but wait ... the Alpha is only 833 MHz, it must be slower.
Yeah, right...
Sorry, it doesn't do windows though.
>Did you read the article titled "Professional Affair" in
>Toms Graphic Guides you twit?
Frankly, in my work I don't give a damn about graphics performance. Pretty pictures are for generals, the analysts look at the numbers.
>Are you saying that in your pathetic world a P3 couldn't
>do what your Athlon does?
You mean in your pathetic world a dual PIII is adequate?
In fact, I'm working on a dual PIII right. And no, it can't. When I need to get work done, I go to my 16 CPU cluster.
>If your application is bus limited then why didn't you
>just get an old 486 out of somebody's dumpster and just
>use that?
Do you have any clue what bus limited means? Because I'm bus-limited on a PIII, I should drop back to a tremendously slower, narrower bus? Yea, that makes sense.
Here's what bus limited means to me:
If I make one run of this sim at a time, it will finish in about 13 hours. If I start two runs at the same time, they'll finish in about 17 hours. So, I'd be better off with two single CPU PIIIs to make my runs on, then this dual PIII. This is because the memory bus, which is shared by both processors can't keep up with the memory demands of two simultaneous runs. The CPUs are data starved.
>Leave SMP concepts for those that understand it.
Considering your lack of understanding, this is actually kind of funny. A dual PIII is barely SMP anyway. He11, you're probably running 98 on it.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
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