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Los Alamos experiences with the IBM (International Business Machines) RISC SYSTEM/6000 workstations

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7164482· OSTI ID:7164482

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 the scientific workload at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The performance of the RISC SYSTEM/6000 machines is compared with corresponding data from a Sun-4/330, a Digital Equipment Corporation DECstation 3100, a single processor of a Convex C-240, a single-processor FPS-500, and a single processor of a CRAY Y-MP8/832. 22 refs., 11 tabs.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/MA
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
7164482
Report Number(s):
LA-11831-MS; ON: DE90007918
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English