6/20 For the purposes of user apps, what would the approximate performance
equivalents be for Sun's SPARC{5,10,20,Ultra10} on the Intel scale,
assuming same specs on everything but CPU? (user apps is meant to
refer to non-realtime, non-graphics/DSP intensive, non-float intensive;
just, say, an office suite)
\_ you are a stupid idiot with poor critical thinking skills.
\_ http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu95/results/res99q4/cpu95-19991206-03938.html
As far as user apps, you're going to have a hard time finding
the equivalents of Office 97 or PhotoShop on Solaris systems.
\_ Doh, staroffice, what a bloated piece of junk. My P166
runs MS Office apps faster all at once than a brand new
Ultra5 runs StarOffice.
\_ StarOffice or Applix, PhotoShop or Gimp, not that hard.
\_ don't start this holy war; that was meant as a hypothetical
situation. thanks for the spec95 link
\_ Most of the machines you list are 7-8 years old, around the time
\_ I realize that. It's not an issue of whether Sun or Intel
r00L3z more. These are the machines I have available
unfortunately, so I just wanted to see where they fit in.
\_ Ultra10 is Ok desktop box. SS5/10/20 are fine as long as
they have decent CPUs (+100Mhz), 128MB RAM, and decent
disks (2GB or larger).
\_ basically Intel is cheaper and faster CPU, but SPARC
workstations are used more often to do real work
because Sun offers a complete performance package.
\_ Would you call Ultra5 or Ultra10 a "performance package"?
of the 486 and very early (very hot) Pentiums (60-90Mhz).
\_ For me, one SETI@home work unit usually takes 26-27 hours on a
Sparc20 with a 150MHz "Ross RT626" CPU (whatever that is), while it
usually takes 11-12 hours on a PII 350MHz. Both are running text
versions. So maybe a PII 350MHz is more than twice as fast as a
Sparc20. But then this is floating-point intensive, so maybe it
doesn't count. --- yuen
\_ Did they do a lot of optimizing? I was doing 26.5 hours per
\_ I don't know, but on the PII it has been roughly the same
speed for me since v1.2. -- yuen
unit on a p2-450 6 months ago.
\_ Times were A LOT shorter if you disabled the graphics.
\_ Linux is 3-4 times faster at setiathome than
\_ Aw, it's just a fancy Qume terminal.
\_ Uh, i dont think that sunray is a workstation...do me
a favor: Type "/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag" and
"uptime" tell us the machine model, the amount of RAM,
the number of CPUs, and the amount of cache on each CPU,
the memory banks size and intrlv.
\_ caught by the troll, hook line & sinker.
\_ If anyone is curious: Sun Enterprise E4500
159 users, 10240 MB RAM, 8 CPUs(each with
8MB cache running at 400Mhz).
Never seen anything so fast.
\_ Except an E10000 that I had to myself for awhile :)
Windows 9x on identical hardware. -tom
\_ I was using NT. I don't think it had an option to
disable graphics. I got bored and uninstalled it
after they started feeding the same packets for
three days.
\_ A co-worker set up some seti stuff on my workstation.
It produced 5871 WU today. What does that mean?
I dont know what kind of CPU it has, but my computer is about
3/4th the size of a laptop and has "SunRay" written on it.
\_ You're using an old model SunRay - the new ones are much
faster and look just like a monitor or flat panel display.
SETI WU's fly through them. |