Re: XL1200 at SLUG90 [really XL1200 performance]

[hall@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)]

In message entitled "XL1200 at SLUG90" on Jun  1, Kim Cook writes
[...]
>
> We will have an XL1200 available at SLUG90 (Stanford University,
> June 20 - June 22).  This is an invitation to bring your 
> application to SLUG and try it out on the XL1200.  There 
> are a few restrictions on the applications we will schedule
[...]
> You are also welcome to just come and sit down and work at the XL1200
> and see for yourself the performance improvement.
> 
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We ran several unscientific benchmarks on an XL1200 at the recent AI Systems
in Gov't Conference, comparing various parameters. These benchmarks were
things like A* and RTA* programs, simple (too simple?) graphics things
like drawing thousands of lines, consing up big lists, etc.

Again, these were unscientific benchmarks, but we got 4-5X speedup
on all of them, as compared to our 3630. We were not comparing
apples with apples, since our 3630 had slightly less memory and
quite a bit less swap space (although both had an FPA), but since
the 4-5X speedup was so consistent, I still thought it would be
of interest to this group.

					- Marty Hall
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