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

[Adul]

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.

 

[Adul]

its this one

And I think it is dual proc at least.

 

[Train]

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.

 

[DanC]

It might do just dandy....
take note though... the AIX client is not SMP - you'd need a session for each proc.

 

[Adul]

for each proc huh
cool

 

[DanC]

<< 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????

 

[Adul]

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.

 

[dumbredneck]

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.

 

[dumbredneck]

How about 6Kkeys/sec/processor


distributed.net client for AIX Copyright 1997-2000, distributed.net
RC5 PowerPC and AltiVec assembly by Dan Oetting
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[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]

 

[Adul]

I think I will be assimilating this dual proc then. thanks.

 

[sciencewhiz]

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.

 

[dumbredneck]

adul -
Pls read the numbers little closer. -- It is useless for RC5!
until someone gets a better core for it.

 

[Adul]

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.

 

[Moose]

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

 

[mechBgon]

Way to go Adul!

 

[Adul]

Wahoo moose!

 

[dumbredneck]

wahoo adul!!

I sure hope that 1 WU / day is worth it.

 

[Adul]

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.

 

[Moose]

Woops - Sorry.

I fell asleep on the couch when I got home last night so I didn't make the update to release for the AIX client. If you haven't found the client in question already, I'm simply going to be moving the AIX client on http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html to the release page. Feel free to use that download.

sorry
moose

 

[Adul]

its all good moose, we all need our beauty sleep sometime