From chemistry-request {*at*} ccl.net Wed Dec 11 08:53:25 1991
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 91 08:43:22 -0500
From: jle-: at :-world.std.com (Joe M Leonard)
To: chemistry- at -ccl.net
Subject: re: 20k workstations
Status: R

I guess a bit of marketing hype leaked through...

I have seen several benchmarks that suggest that the performance of the
latest class of workstations are similar in performance to an XMP, and
provide a significant fraction (1/5th or more) of a YMP.  Naturally, this
dependes on the particular code - scalar stuff really favors the workstation
while vector stuff plays to the Cray.

The point to be considered, however, is the price/performance ratio (gee, I
guess this is used to attack just about every salesman in existance...).  \
Commodity chips are spreading everywhere - with SPARC's used in the latest
Connection Machine...

Joe Leonard
jle $#at#$ world.std.com