[Beowulf] CCL:Question regarding Mac G5 performance (fwd from mmccallum at pacific.edu)

[Greg Lindahl]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:05:12PM -0700, Michael Huntingdon wrote:

> For clusters, scale down the hp rx2600 to the rx1600 dual CPU with fewer 
> PCI-X slots, comparable performance, HP-UX/linux/OVMS, in box upgrades, 
> excellent services, and education price under $3,000.

The only benchmarks for rx1600 are at 1 Ghz, and SPECfp peak is only
1382.  If the $3,000 system is only 1 Ghz, that's not so great price
performance, compared to say a 2.2 Ghz Opteron with a SPECfp peak of
1691.

Perhaps HP does have a faster CPU for the rx1600 and didn't submit a
SPEC score for it? But then what's the price?

-- greg