Platform speeds
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Platform speeds
- From: fink at acf5.nyu.edu (Howard Fink)
- Date: Sun, 31 May 92 14:34:39 -0400
At the mathematica conference I got a chance to try out a variety of platforms, all running Mathematica 2.1. The test: Timing[10000!][[1]] HP Apollo 700 11.96 sec Silicon Graphics 16 sec DecStation 5000/240 18.8 sec Dell 450 DE/2 27.03 sec Next Turbo 32.65 sec Personal DecStation 30.55 sec Sparcstation IPX 35 sec Next 040 44 sec Sparcstation IPC 58.5 sec Mac IIci 123.6 sec Back in the office, Quadra 65 sec Gateway 2000 (486) 49 sec Dec 5820 29 sec The Timings can vary by several seconds on shared machines. It was fun; I'm still looking for a one second machine. Howard Fink