From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xose Vazquez Perez Subject: Re:Alpha is alive Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:14:01 +0100 Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FB18959.6090605@wanadoo.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Oliver Pitzeier wrote: > But what for should anyone buy alphas today? If they need 64-bit, they buy Itanium, > which is cheaper... If they need good performance, they buy a four-way-Xeon-system - > which _is_ faster than a ES45 for example.... it depends! A machine is a set of pieces, a faster CPU doesn't guarantee a faster server! Today HP has the best server out there(alpha), with faster CPU, buses, memory... stream [1] is a memory bandwidth test: --cut-- STREAM Memory Bandwidth All results are in MB/s --- 1 MB=10^6 B, *not* 2^20 B ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Machine ID ncpus COPY SCALE ADD TRIAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HP_AlphaServer_GS1280 64 347712.3 341890.6 373126.5 377727.8 HP_AlphaServer_GS1280 32 177662.1 171680.2 186545.2 180608.2 HP_AlphaServer_GS1280 16 92038.0 92038.0 100902.0 100902.0 HP_Integrity_SuperDome 64 82695.0 82476.0 83013.0 84223.0 (MPI Result) Itanium Sun_F15K 72 54665.4 47703.7 46090.7 50724.3 HP_AlphaServer_GS1280 8 45203.0 46102.0 51125.0 50384.0 HP_AlphaServer_ES80 8 39898.0 40532.0 44519.0 44467.0 HP_Integrity_SuperDome 32 41336.0 41294.0 41485.0 42188.0 (MPI Result) Itanium IBM_eServer_p690+ 32 33737.0 33718.0 40198.0 41064.0 IBM_eServer_p690_Turbo 32 28611.0 28994.0 32222.0 32249.0 HP_SuperDome 64 25230.7 21163.1 26102.1 26717.2 HP_SuperDome_750 64 25762.3 21769.9 25675.0 26549.2 IBM_eServer_p690_Turbo 32 22431.0 21441.0 24830.0 25501.0 HP_AlphaServer_GS1280 4 22804.0 23030.0 25359.0 25376.0 IBM_eServer_p670+ 16 20412.0 20881.0 25271.0 25368.0 IBM_eServer_p690_HPC 16 20267.0 20265.0 24706.0 25058.0 Compaq_AlphaServer_GS320-1001 32 21176.5 21176.5 22657.4 23309.4 HP_AlphaServer_ES80 4 19933.0 20106.0 22247.0 22105.0 HP_AlphaServer_ES47 4 19933.0 20106.0 22247.0 22105.0 HP_Integrity_SuperDome 16 20701.0 20699.0 20793.0 21113.0 (MPI Result) Itanium HP_Integrity_rx8620 16 19913.0 19888.0 20118.0 20511.0 Itanium Compaq_AlphaServer_GS320 32 19592.0 19200.1 21022.0 20425.6 IBM_eServer_p690_HPC 16 17394.0 17066.0 19676.0 20051.0 Unisys_ES7000_Aries_130 16 13381.7 13268.0 14724.4 15681.8 Itanium Unisys_ES7000_Aries_130 8 13239.0 13230.0 14668.0 15630.0 Itanium IBM_eServer_p655+_8p 8 12059.0 12072.0 14925.0 15090.0 HP_SuperDome_750 32 13059.5 12838.3 13526.4 13591.2 HP_SuperDome 32 12704.8 12735.1 13484.5 13410.1 HP_AlphaServer_GS1280 2 11397.0 11562.0 12680.0 12680.0 Compaq_AlphaServer_GS320-1001 16 10971.5 11034.5 11707.4 12100.9 IBM_eServer_p655+_4p 4 8369.8 8354.5 11914.0 12038.7 IBM_eServer_p655_651B 8 10397.0 10580.0 11239.0 11275.0 IBM_eServer_p655_651A 4 8109.0 8183.0 11004.0 11172.0 HP_AlphaServer_ES80 2 9843.0 9967.0 10986.0 10986.0 HP_AlphaServer_ES47 2 9843.0 9967.0 10986.0 10986.0 HP_Integrity_rx7620 8 10108.0 10052.0 10237.0 10283.0 Itanium Compaq_AlphaServer_GS160 16 9796.0 9648.3 10549.5 10212.8 Sun_UE_10000_400 64 12141.6 7970.4 8599.0 8600.4 IBM_eServer_p650_6M2_Linux 8 6108.0 5936.0 7429.0 7588.0 IBM_eServer_p650_6M2 8 6150.0 6110.0 7284.0 7306.0 Sun_UE_10000 63 6307.0 6391.0 7203.0 7197.0 Sun_UE_10000 56 6183.0 6304.0 7131.0 7128.0 Sun_UE_10000 48 5961.0 6056.0 6861.0 6914.0 HP_SuperDome_750 16 6508.9 6514.8 6844.6 6870.1 HP_SuperDome 16 6504.6 6482.3 6856.3 6864.3 HP_8400_750 16 6125.2 6044.2 6541.9 6580.2 HP_AlphaServer_GS1280 1 5816.0 5816.0 6488.0 6345.0 Sun_UE_10000 40 5317.0 5374.0 6162.0 6222.0 Sun_UE_10000_400 48 10536.3 4950.3 6336.5 5940.5 Compaq_AlphaServer_GS320-1001 8 5461.6 5358.5 5795.9 5795.9 HP_AlphaServer_ES80 1 5060.0 5060.0 5689.0 5578.0 HP_AlphaServer_ES47 1 5060.0 5060.0 5689.0 5578.0 IBM_eServer_p680 24 4835.0 4735.0 5350.0 5313.0 Sun_UE_10000 32 4397.0 4408.0 5166.0 5188.0 HP_Integrity_rx7620 4 5067.0 5039.0 5120.0 5149.0 Itanium Compaq_AlphaServer_GS80 8 4898.0 4800.0 5255.5 5133.7 Sun_UE_10000 24 3568.0 3577.0 4292.0 4305.0 Sun_UE_10000_400 32 6933.0 3556.6 4312.8 4032.0 HP_rx2600 1 3453.0 3453.1 4020.4 4027.8 Itanium HP_V2500 32 3934.3 4193.3 3926.3 4027.5 HP_V2600_Enterprise 32 3993.9 4139.0 3544.0 3898.3 IBM_SP-PWR3smp-High-222 8 2954.1 2821.0 3889.0 3872.2 HP_V2600_Technical 16 4093.7 4209.4 3663.1 3706.8 Compaq_AlphaServer_ES45-68/1000 4 3486.7 3486.7 3526.8 3583.8 ION_I2X2 2 3120.2 3112.7 3523.5 3534.8 Itanium ION_I2X2 1 2978.6 3004.0 3419.8 3425.7 Itanium HP_8400_750 8 3053.8 3049.0 3308.0 3325.3 ... Dell_PowerEdge400SC 1 2315.0 2323.0 2652.0 2624.0 Intel P4 2.4 RackSaverRS1100 1 1798.0 1818.0 2162.0 2162.0 Opteron 244 ... ---end-- ALPHA servers win clearly, behind them are IBM_PPC and Intel_IA64, and very very far Sun_UltraSPARC and HP_PA-RISC. [1] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ -- HTML mails are going to trash automagically