On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Michael G Hart wrote:
> I am under the impression that a 500 MHz Alpha is faster that a 500 MHz
> Pentium II (If you could get a 500Mhz Pentium II). You would happen to
> know where I could find the spec marks for these two processors? I am at a
> critical juncture where I need to make a decision on whether I will be
> clustering Alpha's or Pentium II motherboards. I don't want to mix the two
> in our cluster. Basically If I looking at the price/performance ration.
All things being equal, the Alpha is faster. However, all things
are not equal. Alpha has the raw speed, but not a good optimizing
Fortran compiler for Linux (Although you can run DEC Fortran binaries
under Linux, I think this is in violation of the license agreement)
The best thing would be to benchmark you type of application on
the systems you are interested in. We have found that the
PII usually works better than people expect and has a more robust
software/hardware environment.
Doug
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