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Yet Another G5 Roundup

Posted by pudge on from the you-thought-we-were-done dept.

Lawrence Person writes "This article on Low End Mac talks about why the PowerPC 970 is so fast, covering its superiority to Intel chips in Multiply Accumulate, double precision arithmetic, and Fast Fourier Transforms, among other operations. A short, clear article for those who don't have the time to wade through Parts 1 and 2 of Ars Technica's exceptionally detailed dissection of the 970/G5." Trollaxor writes "IBM has a neat two-page history of the PowerPC architecture, detailing its evolution from the first RS/6000 chipsets in 1990, through the POWER ISA, and into the processors that we know and use today. A very interesting read."

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  1. FFT is a good mesure by Baikala · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fast Fourier Transform is bread and butter for the scientific comunity. This is a good news for sys admins at research centers like me.
    Maybe I have a chance at getting one or two of these babies for the next year budget.

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