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Title: Performance evaluation of the IBM RISC (reduced instruction set computer) System/6000: Comparison of an optimized scalar processor with two vector processors

Abstract

RISC System/6000 computers are workstations with a reduced instruction set processor recently developed by IBM. This report details the performance of the 6000-series computers as measured using a set of portable, standard-Fortran, computationally-intensive benchmark codes that represent the scientific workload at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. On all but three of our benchmark codes, the 40-ns RISC System was able to perform as well as a single Convex C-240 processor, a vector processor that also has a 40-ns clock cycle, and on these same codes, it performed as well as the FPS-500, a vector processor with a 30-ns clock cycle. 17 refs., 2 figs., 6 tabs.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/MA
OSTI Identifier:
6569650
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-90-2564; CONF-901121-5
ON: DE90015058
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Association for Computing Machinery/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers supercomputing conference, New York, NY (USA), 12-16 Nov 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; IBM COMPUTERS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; ARRAY PROCESSORS; BENCHMARKS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FORTRAN; MICROPROCESSORS; COMPUTERS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; TESTING; 990200* - Mathematics & Computers

Citation Formats

Simmons, M L, and Wasserman, H J. Performance evaluation of the IBM RISC (reduced instruction set computer) System/6000: Comparison of an optimized scalar processor with two vector processors. United States: N. p., 1990. Web.
Simmons, M L, & Wasserman, H J. Performance evaluation of the IBM RISC (reduced instruction set computer) System/6000: Comparison of an optimized scalar processor with two vector processors. United States.
Simmons, M L, and Wasserman, H J. 1990. "Performance evaluation of the IBM RISC (reduced instruction set computer) System/6000: Comparison of an optimized scalar processor with two vector processors". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6569650.
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author = {Simmons, M L and Wasserman, H J},
abstractNote = {RISC System/6000 computers are workstations with a reduced instruction set processor recently developed by IBM. This report details the performance of the 6000-series computers as measured using a set of portable, standard-Fortran, computationally-intensive benchmark codes that represent the scientific workload at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. On all but three of our benchmark codes, the 40-ns RISC System was able to perform as well as a single Convex C-240 processor, a vector processor that also has a 40-ns clock cycle, and on these same codes, it performed as well as the FPS-500, a vector processor with a 30-ns clock cycle. 17 refs., 2 figs., 6 tabs.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},
month = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990}
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