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Re: Benefits of Linux/Alpha over Linux/x86?

Subject: Re: Benefits of Linux/Alpha over Linux/x86?
From: Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Thu Jun 22 20:13:13 2000


Iwao MAKINO wrote:
> I have not had good experience... it works, but performance is around
> 40MB/sec range....

Is that mega"bit"? Or "byte"? If it is the later, hey, that's
still 4x 100Base! I wouldn't expect to get a full order of
magnitude greater, maybe ~60MBps perhaps.

> If used internally(LAN/SAN) I had more success w/ Myrinet ... soon Quadrics,
> I hope:)

How much is it to get started with Myrinet? I'm mainly just trying
to channel in multiple 100Base Ethernet clients, but I'm assuming
its more for clustering?

> If you use dual CPU, you MUST fill 8 memory slot to get FULL performance.

Understand that. I used to use dual-processor 164 boards.

> 667/4 is pretty good... 750/8 is even better

I was looking at the 667/4 since it's only $500 more than the
667/2. 750/8 is a little too far out there.

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