[geeks] Holy FAST batman!!!

[Chris Byrne]

Did everyone see the g4 TO p4 speed comparison converting RAW images on
/. the other day?

The 1.8ghz P4 was doing them about 20% faster then the dual 1.25Ghz
g4,and the 3.06ghzp4... Well lets just say it wasn't pretty.

There are a few things the P4 is very good it. Large calculations like
that are one of them. Especially since they are relatively easily broken
up into little blocks that can be executed in paralell.

I wonder how hyper threading will affect things?

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Huhn
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 18:46
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [geeks] Holy FAST batman!!!
> 
> 
> Okay, normally I'm not given to swooning over x86 gear, but I just saw
> something really wild.
> 
> My Octane, R12k3 300Mhz, performs one Distributedfolding.com block of
> 5000 protein structures every 3.7 hours - a respectable speed.  I
> installed it, for shits and giggles, on a relatively unused system at
> work that has a single P4 Xeon 1.8Ghz - and it does one block of 5000
> every 25 *minutes*.
> 
> I'm actually very fucking impressed.
> 
> -- 
> Kurt                "I remember that I've got a solid base of 
> worms and
> kurt at k-huhn.com      ant eggs.  I puke like a hero all night long."
>                                                       -- Tony Bourdain
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