Dear all,

>From our experience in Amsterdam, I can say the following:

Pentiums and AMD Athlon machine both give good performance for ADF,
especially if price/performance is considered. They should outperform
old IBM machines.

Pentium III and AMD Athlons are currently about equally fast for ADF if they
have the same clock speed.

In general the ADF performance follows reasonably well the numbers from
the SPECFP benchmarks. These numbers therefore offer some support in
deciding which types of machines are most suitable for ADF.

Best regards,

Stan van Gisbergen
SCM.

>Hello all,
>
>I have a question about relative performance of ADF. An academic contact
>planning to use ADF has expressed interest in a relatively old IBM RISC 560
>workstation. However, I am not sure that using this (approximately eight
>years old) workstation will give better performance than a new upmarket
>Pentium III PC (running Linux). I have no personal experience with ADF on
>Pentium. Is there anybody out there who has and can compare the performance
>of the two different systems (just qualitatively will be fine)? I'd be truly
>grateful.
>
>Best regards
>Jaap Louwen
>
>
Received on 2000-12-12 13:52:19