[rescue] ooh, pretty

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:24:05PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:

> A researcher I was acquanted with used to run large compute jobs taking 
> several weeks to finish. She switched to a dual R10K Octane and 1 run 
> later switched back to a Power Indigo2 (with a 75Mhz R8K).
> 
> Don't fall into the trap of assuming Mhz=speed (Dave obviously knows 
> this) ... a quote from a supercomputing centre looking at the R8000 
> said that it was half the clock speed of the R4400 but 4 times the 
> speed (probably just looking at fp perf).

On this note, our own George Adkins has a handy dandy multiprocessor r8k
machine in his basement to my understanding.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd