| IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote [message #17020] |
Tue, 31 August 1999 00:00  |
gurman
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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?)
Joe Gurman
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| Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote [message #17069 is a reply to message #17020] |
Fri, 03 September 1999 00:00  |
gurman
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In article <gurman-3108991850570001@barkochba.nascom.nasa.gov>,
gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) wrote:
> In article <7qhb3j$qel$1@agate-ether.berkeley.edu>,
> korpela@highland.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) wrote:
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>> 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
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> 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.)
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> 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).
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> The G4 also runs a setiathome iteration in 6 hours, which isn't too
shabby.
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> See RSI's hype at:
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> http://www.rsinc.com/pressrelease/pr_083199.cfm .
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> Joe G.
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