Speed of SPARC 330/370
Mike Iarrobino - Systems Engineer
iarrobin at wookie.east.sun.com
Fri Aug 10 04:03:56 AEST 1990
In article <1990Aug9.022829.7925 at rice.edu>, bauman at shell.com (Evan G. Bauman) writes:
>
>The SPARC 330 and 370 are rated at 2.7 MFlops. Now I find this
>incredible. We have a 330 and a 370 and my Linpack test only yields
>1.7-1.8 MFlops. In fact, here's the verbatim results directly from Mr.
>Dongarra's benchmark. This is from a SPARC 370 workstation, with FORTRAN
>1.2, compiled with f77 -O.
I believe these performance numbers were obtained using the latest FORTRAN
compiler 1.3 at the highest optimization level (-fast -O4). The default
for -O is -O2 which is a compromise between optimization and compile time.
Michael V. Iarrobino
EMail: mike.iarrobino at East.Sun.COM
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