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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Hi!

> I am a summer student implementing a multi-threaded version of a very
> popular bioinformatics tool. So far it compiles and runs without problems
> (as far as I can tell ;) on Linux 2.2.x, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX and Compaq
> OSF/1 running on Alpha. I have ran a lot of timing tests compared to the
> sequential version of the tool on all of these machines (most of them are
> dual-CPU, although I am also running tests on 12-CPU Solaris and 108 CPU
> SGI IRIX). On dual-CPU machines the speedups are as follows: my version
> is 1.88 faster than the sequential one on IRIX, 1.81 times on Solaris,
> 1.8 times on OSF/1, 1.43 times on Linux 2.2.x and 1.52 times on Linux 2.4
> kernel. Why are the numbers on Linux machines so much lower? It is
> the

But this is all different hw, no?

So dual cpu SPARC is more efficient than dual cpu i686. Maybe SPARCs
have faster RAM and slower cpus... 
								Pavel
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