[Beowulf] MIPS/Watt data

Brian D. Ropers-Huilman bropers at lsu.edu
Thu Jun 3 09:24:31 PDT 2004


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IBM's BlueGene systems are based on similar architectures, 500MHz PowerPCs, 
full system on a chip design. 

On 2004-06-02 09:57 (-0500), Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
] Jim Lux wrote:
] > If we compare Dhry mips to Bogomips (who's to say if we're not within an 
] > order of magnitude).. A 3.4 GHz P4 turned in 6700 Bogomips.  That was 
] > probably around 100W (total guess), for 67 Bogomips/watt.
] 
] ARM, Mips and SH all beat the pants off x86 in the MIPS/watt and also in 
] the FLOPS/watt department.
] 
] Nobody seems to be interested in clusters built with these 
] architectures.

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