Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi From: Yon Han CHONG Subject: Re: Which implimentation for Pentium II machines? Organization: Cranfield University Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:24:37 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------D0E7A4AC1759F10BAEE1CDD4" Message-ID: <34CFB023.E9893A9B@cranfield.ac.uk> --------------D0E7A4AC1759F10BAEE1CDD4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-KR Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greg Lindahl wrote: > Daniel Pfenniger writes: > > We are wandering off topic, but in my case I just bought 64 alphas. > We pay about the same for a 533mhz alpha as for a 2x300 mhz Intel. > The alpha has twice the performance per CPU, and you don't have to > worry about asymmetry. It's worth looking carefully into both the > price and the performance. > > -- g I know that as well. Unfortunately, it is the computer centre who is buying the machine not I. Whether they have a special discount with some company I don't know. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yon Han Chong | Flow Control and Prediction Group | Tel: + 44 1234 750 111 ext.5420 Cranfield College of Aeronautics | E-mail: Y.H.Chong@cranfield.ac.uk Cranfield University | Fax: + 44 1234 752 149 United Kingdom | Mobile: + 44 958 381 395 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------D0E7A4AC1759F10BAEE1CDD4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=EUC-KR Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greg Lindahl wrote:
Daniel Pfenniger <Daniel.Pfenniger@obs.unige.ch> writes:

We are wandering off topic, but in my case I just bought 64 alphas.
We pay about the same for a 533mhz alpha as for a 2x300 mhz Intel.
The alpha has twice the performance per CPU, and you don't have to
worry about asymmetry. It's worth looking carefully into both the
price and the performance.

-- g

 I know that as well. Unfortunately, it is the computer centre who is buying the machine not I.
Whether they have a special discount with some company I don't know. 
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