Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl!gas From: gas@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: RISC and MIPS Message-ID: <29898@lanl.ARPA> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 11:03:53 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl.29898 Posted: Tue Aug 20 11:03:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 04:49:26 EDT References: <419@kontron.UUCP> <2300001@uicsl> <1093@ames.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 8 Another metric is a sampling of large, mostly unmodifiable, commercial codes. My preference is MSC/Nastran (.5e6+lines of finite element code). It runs on a surprising number of machines, and is a rigorous test of not only performance (cpu and io) but the scientific/engineering environment available to the average user. It helps draw the line between special purpose and general purpose environments (or, less tactfully, usable and unusable machines).. george spix gas@lanl (MSC - MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation, Los Angeles)