Comment MAC Musings (Score 1) 216
First off;
I've never had the opportunity to work on a MAC though I've revered their design from an engineering standpoint for more than a decade; They have simply been at the engineering forefront of personal computers and OS since MAC was first introduced. Just too pricy for me.
Secondly;
Those of you interested in discussing benchmarking on a MAC need to compare apples to apples, no pun intended. The only way to compare stats across platforms is to use the same OS (Linux) with the same benchmarking suite that has been compiled *without* cpu specific optimizations. The Seti@Home client uses this "blended optimization" approach for statistical homogeneity, though I question the veracity of utilizing *it* for an accurate cross platform benchmark.
Thirdly;
Those of you hungering for knowledge and proof that the PPC/Linux pairing has *NOT* been "borne a dying", used only within the confines of some university geek lab, check out www.terrasoftsolutions.com, the maker of YellowDog Linux and BlackLab Linux. Their products are used in major government research centers. Using BlackLab Linux, "support for the Motorola AltiVec technology offers an increase in performance of 150-300% over non-AltiVec systems with some Linux applications running in excess of 10 times (1,000%) faster."
Now for the flame bait 0:-)
They, along with CSPI have created integrated high-performance multicomputer boards and systems designed for use in a variety of compute-intensive applications using Black Lab Linux as the embedded operating system running MPI. Can anyone say *Beowulf* ?
I've never had the opportunity to work on a MAC though I've revered their design from an engineering standpoint for more than a decade; They have simply been at the engineering forefront of personal computers and OS since MAC was first introduced. Just too pricy for me.
Secondly;
Those of you interested in discussing benchmarking on a MAC need to compare apples to apples, no pun intended. The only way to compare stats across platforms is to use the same OS (Linux) with the same benchmarking suite that has been compiled *without* cpu specific optimizations. The Seti@Home client uses this "blended optimization" approach for statistical homogeneity, though I question the veracity of utilizing *it* for an accurate cross platform benchmark.
Thirdly;
Those of you hungering for knowledge and proof that the PPC/Linux pairing has *NOT* been "borne a dying", used only within the confines of some university geek lab, check out www.terrasoftsolutions.com, the maker of YellowDog Linux and BlackLab Linux. Their products are used in major government research centers. Using BlackLab Linux, "support for the Motorola AltiVec technology offers an increase in performance of 150-300% over non-AltiVec systems with some Linux applications running in excess of 10 times (1,000%) faster."
Now for the flame bait 0:-)
They, along with CSPI have created integrated high-performance multicomputer boards and systems designed for use in a variety of compute-intensive applications using Black Lab Linux as the embedded operating system running MPI. Can anyone say *Beowulf* ?
