Speed of SPARC 330/370

[Mike Iarrobino - Systems Engineer]

In article <1990Aug9.022829.7925 at rice.edu>, bauman at shell.com (Evan G. Bauman) writes:
>
>The SPARC 330 and 370 are rated at 2.7 MFlops.  Now I find this
>incredible.  We have a 330 and a 370 and my Linpack test only yields
>1.7-1.8 MFlops.  In fact, here's the verbatim results directly from Mr.
>Dongarra's benchmark.  This is from a SPARC 370 workstation, with FORTRAN
>1.2, compiled with f77 -O.

I believe these performance numbers were obtained using the latest FORTRAN
compiler 1.3 at the highest optimization level (-fast -O4).  The default
for -O is -O2 which is a compromise between optimization and compile time.

Michael V. Iarrobino
EMail:	mike.iarrobino at East.Sun.COM