From chemistry-request-!at!-server.ccl.net Fri Oct 15 13:33:35 1999 Received: from bluejay.prod.itd.earthlink.net (bluejay.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.108]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA29598 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:33:35 -0400 Received: from lrz.uni-muenchen.de (1Cust252.tnt1.rancho-cucamonga.ca.da.uu.net [63.24.225.252]) by bluejay.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22976; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eugene.leitl /at\localhost) by lrz.uni-muenchen.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14859; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:24:13 -0700 From: Eugene Leitl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14343.25405.170977.895258:~at~:lrz.uni-muenchen.de> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:24:13 -0700 (PDT) To: "Rzepa, Henry" Cc: CHEMISTRY- at -ccl.net, r.c.walker- at -ic.ac.uk, steve- at -serf.org, Brett Bode Subject: CCL:Beowulf+Chemistry web site In-Reply-To: References: <3802213A.3D9D85EC -A_T- u.arizona.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 21.1 (patch 4) "Arches" XEmacs Lucid Rzepa, Henry writes: > The new G4 processor is much better at floating point than the G3, > and it might even come close to Pentium systems (?). Certainly the SETI It does not simply come close, it beats Pentium III by a substantial margin. > project reveals that for the FT (integer) type of operations, G3 processors "appear" > to substantially outperform Pentiums. Unfortunately, Athlons (700 MHz AMD Athlon has just been released) is even faster than G4: http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/benchmarks/specfp.html