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| Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote [message #16996 is a reply to message #16991] |
Wed, 01 September 1999 00:00  |
gurman
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I can hardly wait....
BTW, for the faithful, the "Apple Event" yesterday at Seybold SF is
available as a streaming QT movie at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/showcase/live/seybold99/seybo ldvod.mov .
You should move the slider over abouit 85% - 90% of the way to the right
to get the IDL demo bakeoff.
Joe G.
In article <7qhqu2$85$1@agate-ether.berkeley.edu>,
korpela@islay.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) wrote:
> In article <gurman-3108991850570001@barkochba.nascom.nasa.gov>,
> Joseph B. Gurman <gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
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>> The G4 also runs a setiathome iteration in 6 hours, which isn't too
shabby.
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> Pretty good, but don't worry, we're working on the next version which will
> take at least twice as long to run (but will do far more work). If everyone's
> machines are getting into the 6-8 hour range, we may want to make it take
> 4 times as long.
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> If only our servers were faster....
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> Eric
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| Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote [message #17006 is a reply to message #16991] |
Tue, 31 August 1999 00:00 |
gurman
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In article <7qhb3j$qel$1@agate-ether.berkeley.edu>,
korpela@highland.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) wrote:
> In article <gurman-3108991331360001@eddy.nascom.nasa.gov>,
> Joseph B. Gurman <gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>> During Steve Jobs's keynote at the Seybold publishing conference in
>> San Francisco today (August 31), they ran side-by-side IDL rendering demos
>> on a Pentium III (600 MHz) and a 500 MHz G4 PowerMac, which supposedly
>> does floating point ops at > 1 Gflops. (Guess which machine won, by a
>> factor of ~ 4?)
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> Let me guess, the PIII was running Windows.
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> Eric
Well, of course. (I don't think there's a LinuxPPC for the G4 yet, so
a _real_ test wouldn't be possible --- even if RSI sold IDL for LinuxPPC.)
Still, the prototype ads they showed for the G4 were cute: "The DOD
says we can;t export these to some countries because they're
supercomputers" (i.e., the ancient 1 GFLOPS barrier).
The G4 also runs a setiathome iteration in 6 hours, which isn't too shabby.
See RSI's hype at:
http://www.rsinc.com/pressrelease/pr_083199.cfm .
Joe G.
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| Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote [message #17019 is a reply to message #17006] |
Tue, 31 August 1999 00:00 |
davidf
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Joseph B. Gurman (gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov) writes:
> During Steve Jobs's keynote at the Seybold publishing conference in
> San Francisco today (August 31), they ran side-by-side IDL rendering demos
> on a Pentium III (600 MHz) and a 500 MHz G4 PowerMac, which supposedly
> does floating point ops at > 1 Gflops. (Guess which machine won, by a
> factor fo ~ 4?)
Yeah, but if you can't REBIN unsigned long integers.... :-)
Cheers,
David
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