Re: Is SGI O2/150 much faster than PII/233?

 On Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:10:54, Yubo Fan wrote:
 > Recently, someone told me that SGI O2/150 workstation could run G94 much
 > faster than G94W run on PII/233? Is it true?  Could you please give some
 > advice?
 I don't have benchmark results for either exactly an SGI O2/150 or for G94W
 run on PII/233.  However, in the context of extensive benchmarking of G94 on
 a range of computers--from Cray J90 to Alpha and Pentium II/Pro systems--
 (paper forthcoming in J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci.), we have obtained results
 for two systems that are close enough that they might allow extrapolation to
 the computers you're looking at.
 Aggregate job cpu times (sec) for G94 test jobs 1, 28, 94, 155, 194, 296, 302:
 SGI Origin 200, R10000 195 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM:         923 sec
 Pentium II 300 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, Windows NT:        1283 sec
 So I would venture to guess that an SGI O2/150 workstation would run G94
 faster than G94W run on PII/233, but not "much faster".  I'd expect on
 the
 order of 50% more CPU time on the PII/233 compared to SGI O2/150.
 Hope this helps.
 Marc
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