Mainframe stuff...

From: Absurdly Obtuse <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Sep 20 13:34:07 2001

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > What sort of tests do you do? I would be happy to post numbers from my
> > twin 4000-700As, my 8700 (when I have all the requisite parts), my
> > 6000-610, my 7000-650, my 4000/VLC, my 3100/30, and any other VAXen I have
> > lying around. I wonder if I could do a VUP test on something other than
> > VAX and have it mean anything.
>
> I have a VUP program I downloaded from somewhere, but it isn't accurate (for
> instance, it only calculates VUPs on one processor of an SMP system). The
> real VUP calculator DEC used was a set of programs.

Is it no longer available? No one has it?

> What I use for tests are a few compiles and some other programs and calculate
> based on results from a known VUP rating.

Cool. This depends on using multithreaded apps, though, right?

> I've also tried these tests on an Alpha, but that's apples-to-oranges so
> there's really not any correlation.

I was thinking of something even more different. I was thinking of
calculating a VUP rating for my IBM S/390 G5.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Sep 20 2001 - 13:34:07 BST