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What are RS6000 workstations good for? UPDATED! GOOD news guys!

Adul

Adul

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I noticed we are getting those in now. I wonder if it is possible to get them on rc5 🙂. I will have to talk to Someone and at least get his onboard.
 
youll have to find out how good "POWER3-II" CPUs are at RC5

to the besot of my knowlegde, RSxxxx machines are for RPG crunching, basicallt generating reports from big fat databases.
 
It might do just dandy....
take note though... the AIX client is not SMP - you'd need a session for each proc.
 


<< youll have to find out how good &quot;POWER3-II&quot; CPUs are at RC5 >>


Wouldn't it be really cool to find that they do like... 5MKeys/sec / processor???? 🙂
 
I will try to find out today if I can catch this unix guy. He has one he does not use very much at all.
 
Adul -
I have the AIX client running on RS/6000 604e cpus with good success. (that is the AIX contribution you see on the stats)
It DOES SUPPORT SMP
The POWER-II doesn't work so well. about 6Kkeys/sec/cpu
.. I have one of these 270's it is a sweet little box, i will try the client on it today or tomorrow and give you a report.




 
How about 6Kkeys/sec/processor


distributed.net client for AIX Copyright 1997-2000, distributed.net
RC5 PowerPC and AltiVec assembly by Dan Oetting
Please visit http://www.distributed.net/ for up-to-date contest information.


dnetc v2.8009-460-CTR-00051003 for AIX (AIX 4.3).
Please provide the *entire* version descriptor when submitting bug reports.
The distributed.net bug report pages are at http://www.distributed.net/bugs/
Using email address (distributed.net ID) 'kseaman@strategicdb.com'

[Jan 05 14:22:51 UTC] Automatic processor type detection failed.
[Jan 05 14:22:51 UTC] RC5: Running micro-bench to select fastest core...
[Jan 05 14:23:22 UTC] RC5: using core #0 (allitnil).

[Jan 05 14:23:51 UTC] Benchmark for RC5 core #0 (allitnil)
0.00:00:16.86 [5,355.16 keys/sec]

[Jan 05 14:24:09 UTC] Benchmark for OGR core #0 (GARSP 5.13)
0.00:00:16.20 [2,533,485.74 nodes/sec]


 
dumbredneck,

You should definetly be running OGR on that machine that you benchmarked from an efficiency stanpoint. in RC5, each processor acts the equivilant of a 12 mhz 386. In OGR, you are getting the equivilant of a PII 400.

From an efficiency standpoint it would be like choosing the car of your dreams, but it only getting 4 gallons of gas to the mile, versus a Honda Civic that gets a thousand miles to the gallon. The choice is up to you.
 
Well I talked to the guy who has the AIX box. He is a real unix genius and use to run it rc5 at his old job. He was not part of a team then. We are talking about a huge potential of blocks to be added to the team here 🙂

oh we added his workstations today.
one rs6000 WS = p3550 (single proc only)
and a p2 450


Hopefully he will find what e-mail he has been using. He said they are prob still running on those servers and machines where he was working at. He still ahs acces to it so I will find out sometime this week whats up. 🙂
 
The AIX client on pre-release supports SMP, no need to run 2 clients anymore. I will be releasing it sometime in the next few hours.

moose
 
Dumbredneck, we are getting more than one WU a day. 1.3 Mkeys infact. Its equivalent to my P3 500 system. not bad for a 375 Mhz proc.
 
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