[PLUG] Linux compute engine

Douglas Howard DVHoward at teleport.com
Tue Nov 14 10:02:24 UTC 2006


The SPEC benchmarks and website are one "standard" with 
published benchmarks on their site.  http://www.spec.org/ 

Look at CPU benchmarks and Results areas of the site.
You can also download the benchmark and run it on your candidate system
to see how it compares against all the others.

Douglas
linux at ppcug.org 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Lofstrom" <keithl at kl-ic.com>
To: "PLUG" <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 1:47 PM
Subject: [PLUG] Linux compute engine

I do a LOT of CAD simulation, mostly with proprietary apps ($$$) 
designed for 32 bit X86.  I want to buy new motherboard; I want
simple and fast, I do not need fast graphics or fast ethernet or
sound or big disk or big ram any other wizzy stuff, just the best
performance on small, single-threaded 32 bit floating-point apps. 
I will probably be running a RHEL4 clone OS on the machine.

What is the best way to go?  Does an Opteron or a dual-core run
32 bit single thread apps faster than a P4 or Atheron?  Given
fast processor X, which motherboard is most reliable?  Suggested
websites with reviews?

Keith
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KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
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