Your definition of "real-world" should depend a lot on what you want to use the machine for:
If you want to use the machine as a server you will want some server benchmark, for example "specWEB".
There are numbers for both dual AMD and dual Alpha configurations on www.spec.org. They are not exactly for the processors you want to know about, and this kind of benchmark depends a lot on the software (web server, OS) used.
Normally you should use a benchmark for the software you want to run (Oracle / SQLServer / SAP R3 / apache / IIS /...)
If you want to use the machine for scientific computing, look at specCPU (SPEC_int_rate_2000 / SPEC_fp_rate_2000)
There is another very interesting satellite radio service: WorldSpace
There are 3 satellites, on each for
- Africa
- Asia
- South America
The african satellite can be heard in most of europe, too.
There are news in a lot of languages (reuters, bloombergs, bbc, radio france,...) and also local (african, asian, south american) stations which play a lot of music.
Music is encoded as 128kb MP3, in addition you can also sign up for some "receive only" internet service - where some internet sites get downloaded into a local cache on your machine. This is most interesting if you are in a place without a reliable data connection.
For europeans, this service is interesting mostly because the music played by the african channels is quite different to the music european stations play - and the transmission quality is much better than short wave radio.
You have to get a special receiver to decode the signal, but you don't need a big dish.
See http://www.worldspace.com
If you just want to hear music and/or news, you don't have to signup anywhere.
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Your definition of "real-world" should depend a lot on what you want to use the machine for:
...)
If you want to use the machine as a server you will want some server benchmark, for example "specWEB".
There are numbers for both dual AMD and dual Alpha configurations on www.spec.org. They are not exactly for the processors you want to know about, and this kind of benchmark depends a lot on the software (web server, OS) used.
Normally you should use a benchmark for the software you want to run (Oracle / SQLServer / SAP R3 / apache / IIS /
If you want to use the machine for scientific computing, look at specCPU (SPEC_int_rate_2000 / SPEC_fp_rate_2000)
2*Athlon MP/1800+: 13 / 10
DS20E (2*Alpha 21264B@833): 13 / 15.9
2*Xeon 2Ghz: 13.4 / 12.4
There is another very interesting satellite radio service: WorldSpace
...) and also local (african, asian, south american) stations which play a lot of music.
There are 3 satellites, on each for
- Africa
- Asia
- South America
The african satellite can be heard in most of europe, too.
There are news in a lot of languages (reuters, bloombergs, bbc, radio france,
Music is encoded as 128kb MP3, in addition you can also sign up for some "receive only" internet service - where some internet sites get downloaded into a local cache on your machine. This is most interesting if you are in a place without a reliable data connection.
For europeans, this service is interesting mostly because the music played by the african channels is quite different to the music european stations play - and the transmission quality is much better than short wave radio.
You have to get a special receiver to decode the signal, but you don't need a big dish.
See http://www.worldspace.com
If you just want to hear music and/or news, you don't have to signup anywhere.