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From: Max Power on 8 Apr 2008 02:33

Where are PC / Mac / Linux benchmarks (programs) that compare performance to
Cray and other supercomputers ... must exist somewhere.

Vista has a benchmark system, but it makes no Cray comparison.

BOINC clients, in Graphical mode could provide Cray comparasons, but don't.

From: Dennis Grevenstein on 8 Apr 2008 04:57
In comp.unix.cray Max Power <mikehack(a)washington.edu> wrote:
>
> Where are PC / Mac / Linux benchmarks (programs) that compare performance to
> Cray and other supercomputers ... must exist somewhere.

Linpack?
You can compile it on most systems. The real thing is Fortran
code, but there is a C version too. The C version I found years
ago gave about the same results as the Fortran version on single
CPU CISC and RISC systems. When benchmarking your own little
Cray (or other vector processor) in your basement, better use
the Fortran version.

Dennis

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From: Doug Freyburger on 11 Apr 2008 14:23
Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I tried to see if any Cray users were running BOINC, but found no evidence
> of such. I notice there is a comp.unix.cray newsgroup, so I infer that one
> can run UNIX on one. Therefore one could get a BOINC client to run on the
> Cray I suppose by compiling it from source. OTOH, I do not know if the
> actual BOINC applications are available for it. While I did not do an
> exhaustive search for Cray users at the BOINC web site, I scanned the users
> and found no Cray in the list of OSs being used.

UniCos is the standard (one of the standards?) Cray operating
system. It's quite vanilla UNIX System V.

Moore's law says at some point the laptops at the local store
will be as fast as the Cray's in the earily versions of the top
500 supercomputers list. Wanna bet the laptops won't run as
fast anyways? ;^)
From: Jean-David Beyer on 11 Apr 2008 15:51
Doug Freyburger wrote (in part):

>
> Moore's law says at some point the laptops at the local store
> will be as fast as the Cray's in the earily versions of the top
> 500 supercomputers list. Wanna bet the laptops won't run as
> fast anyways? ;^)

My current desktop has 8 GBytes of RAM. My first desktop had only about 1.3
GBytes of hard drive.

My current desktop has dual 3.06 GigaHertz Hyperthreaded Xeon processors.
The first computer I ever used had 32K words of RAM, no hard drives, and the
processor took about 2 1/2 refrigerators of space and ran at what would be
called 50 KiloHertz.

My current desktop may have cost around $6000 (including 6 SCSI hard drives,
LCD monitor, etc). The 704 cost around $600/hour to rent (it came with 10
tape drives).

If the Crays were anything like the Control Data machines, they had 60-bit
word size which is substantially more than the 32-bit size of my machine,
although nowadays you can get 64-bit machines at reasonable cost. People in
those days needed bigger word sizes because the roundoff in large floating
point calculations (think analytical weather prediction) was too much even
in double-precision of 32-bit binary (or worse, 32-bit hexadecimal)
machines. THese days, we do not do all that much computation on our machine,
but just push bytes around, so this is less important.

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From: Eugene Miya on 16 Apr 2008 13:05
In article <2be96590-1283-4d9e-bc64-3cf2b836337f(a)k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Doug Freyburger <dfreybur(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>> I tried to see if any Cray users were running BOINC,

What's BOINC?

>> I notice there is a comp.unix.cray newsgroup, so I infer that one
>> can run UNIX on one.

Yeah, it was proposed and approved by people who didn't have one/any.

>UniCos is the standard (one of the standards?) Cray operating
>system. It's quite vanilla UNIX System V.

It's approaching 25 years old. Next week we celebrate the founding of
one of our supercomptuer centers.

>Moore's law says at some point the laptops at the local store
>will be as fast as the Cray's in the earily versions of the top
>500 supercomputers list. Wanna bet the laptops won't run as
>fast anyways? ;^)

Erich's list post-dated the retirement of all the numeric numbered CRI
models and most of the alphabetic MP models. Just give a laptop an I/O
intensive big data problem if you want to see a slow machine.

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