Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:00:52 +0200 From: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.4 and P4/i850 RAMBUS Systems Message-ID: <20010927160052.A16050@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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We have just received a PIV machine with rambus memory. Good news is that rambus is now rather cheap. More good news, this machine runs very fast on the computations we do. These are spin systems computations which do a lot of random access to memory (and not many computations for each access). The result is that the PIV 1.8Ghz runs twice as fast as an AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz with the same memory size as soon as the size of the computation is large in memory (for small size the Athlon does better). These tests have been done in Linux. At least they show that rambus is a great bonus in this game. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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