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We've ported chemistry simulation code to the pre-release ITA-2, and run benchmarks. There's not much like it, performance-wise, and on a cycle/dollar scale, it's in a class by itself. Smokes US-IIIs, walks away from the Alpha, and keeps pace handily with the Power4, at a more academicly-tolerable price. It's a good chip in its second incarnation, and has the misfortune to be introduced during a recession.
As always, the NYT ignored that you'll need the 64-bit address space for large applications, it has excellent memory bandwidth, and those customers requiring such a system weren't explicitly interviewed or mentioned. The heat issue is true, and that's it's one failing, but as with the Alpha, it will get better in time. (I still remember the rumors, pre-release of the Alpha that DEC was going to have to build a liquid-cooled workstation)
It's the other end of PA from where you're at. You're in civilization, and Wilkes-Barre... well, being from up there, I'd say it's probably IBM's only coal-fired AS/400 they were running.
As for the NJ crack, there are plenty of IT jobs there. Just wait until you graduate, and end up taking a job in the Holy Land. Learn those Turnpike Exits now!
We ordered a whack of UltrasparcII workstations (U10/U60s) from them in July, with an August ship date, and as of Today (Sept 24) the only Sun box around here is the SparcStation 10 holding up the coffee maker.
It looks like a very nice chip, but periodically the customer likes to get hold of one too.
So, the question becomes: how difficult is it to integrate that port into the PowerPC/Power distribution of NetBSD? Getting old 486's to run might be nice, but we have more than a few IBM RS/6000 workstations around here that are borderline cost-effective under AIX, but would be worth keeping turned on under NetBSD.
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We've ported chemistry simulation code to the pre-release ITA-2, and run benchmarks. There's not much like it, performance-wise, and on a cycle/dollar scale, it's in a class by itself. Smokes US-IIIs, walks away from the Alpha, and keeps pace handily with the Power4, at a more academicly-tolerable price. It's a good chip in its second incarnation, and has the misfortune to be introduced during a recession.
As always, the NYT ignored that you'll need the 64-bit address space for large applications, it has excellent memory bandwidth, and those customers requiring such a system weren't explicitly interviewed or mentioned. The heat issue is true, and that's it's one failing, but as with the Alpha, it will get better in time. (I still remember the rumors, pre-release of the Alpha that DEC was going to have to build a liquid-cooled workstation)
So what's "Gig 'Em!" sound like in Danish? (or Danish flavored with a strong New Jersey accent)?
It's the other end of PA from where you're at. You're in civilization, and Wilkes-Barre... well, being from up there, I'd say it's probably IBM's only coal-fired AS/400 they were running.
As for the NJ crack, there are plenty of IT jobs there. Just wait until you graduate, and end up taking a job in the Holy Land. Learn those Turnpike Exits now!
It is called Fortran. It's a pretty hostile way to go, but hard problems call for hard solutions.
We ordered a whack of UltrasparcII workstations (U10/U60s) from them in July, with an August ship date, and as of Today (Sept 24) the only Sun box around here is the SparcStation 10 holding up the coffee maker. It looks like a very nice chip, but periodically the customer likes to get hold of one too.
So, the question becomes: how difficult is it to integrate that port into the PowerPC/Power distribution of NetBSD? Getting old 486's to run might be nice, but we have more than a few IBM RS/6000 workstations around here that are borderline cost-effective under AIX, but would be worth keeping turned on under NetBSD.