In <[email protected]>, on
08/24/2012
at 10:31 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:13:49 -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: >
>> ...
>>max configured z196 with 80 processors is rated for 50BIPS and goes for
>>$28M (about $560,000/BIPS) ...
>>
>>ibm has base price of $1815 for e5-2600 blade ... which have ratings at
>>527BIPS (about $3.44/BIPS), ...
>>
>A factor of 160,000.
Only if you're talking about the same instruction mix. When one system
has instructions like MVCL and the other doesn't, MIPS truly means
"meaningless indication of processor speed". A comparison of FLOPS
ratings might be more meaningful, since the spread between the slowest
and the fastest operation isn't as large.
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