>From: Michael G Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>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.
http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu95/
Keep in mind that gcc on x86 is 10-20% slower than Intel C compiler
that was used for CINT95 of PII systems.
AFAIK, for Alpha the difference between GNU C & FORTRAN compilers and Digital
compilers is bigger than for PII.
Dmitriy Budko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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