SPECmarks for RS/6000 systems - lies???

[Vic Abell]

In article <4733 at lure.latrobe.edu.au>, CCHD at lure.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies - La Trobe University Computer Centre) writes:
> I have just got a copy of the September 1990 SPECwatch and I am
> a bit concerned about the following paragraph:
> 
> "There also seems to be a problem with replicating IBM's RS6000
> SPECmark results, and with achieving the expected levels of
> performance with other code.

While I haven't had a chance today to run the entire SPEC 1.0 suite on my
RS/6000-520 (GA code), I did run the following benchmarks from the suite.

		008.espresso
		013.spice2g6
		023.eqntott
		030.matrix300
		047.tomcatv

The SPEC ratios I got differ from IBM's by no more than 0.4.  I got the
same result for one test; one of my results was higher by 0.3, another by
0.4; and two were lower by 0.3.  (I think SPEC reporting rules keep me
from publishing an incomplete report.)

Vic Abell
Assistant Director
Purdue University Computing Center
SPEC license 310