Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:904 comp.unix.questions:8173 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!cevax.berkeley.edu!ao From: ao@cevax.berkeley.edu (Akin Ozselcuk) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.unix.questions Subject: Sun 3 vs uVAXII floating point speed.... Message-ID: <25065@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 14 Jul 88 00:39:14 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: ao@cevax.berkeley.edu (Akin Ozselcuk) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 34 Hello, I am posting this article on behalf of a friend of mine who is planning to buy either a Sun3 or a VAX Station 2000 (a watered down uVAXII) He is planning to do a lot of number crunching by using f77. Here is the problem: 1. uVAXII 's have 0.9 VAX mips 2. Sun 3's have 3 Mips My question : Sun 3 seems very impressive in this respect BUT CAN WE SAY THAT Sun 3 IS 3 TIMES FASTER IN FLOATING POINT CALCULATIONS THAN uVAX HOW ABOUT FLOATING POINT SPEEDS OF Sun386i vs uVAXII? Any comments about these 3 systems for heavy number crunching applications will be appreciated. Thanks. .. AkIn Ozselcuk ' ao@cevax.berkeley.edu Dept of Civil Engineering, Experientia Docet UC Berkeley