[R] Benchmarks

[Thomas Lumley]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 Lennart.Araskoug at astrazeneca.com wrote:

> Hi !
>
> Is there anyone that has any current benchmark results from Sparc CPU's ?
>
> I'm mostly interested of US-III 750 and US-II 450, But any US-II/III would
> be interesting.

We used to have some UltraSparc II machines, I believe at 450MHz.  R ran
very slightly faster on a 450MHz Pentium III than on the UltraSparc, based
on make check and on the survival package tests. I don't have any absolute
figures, but they would be obsolete anyway.

	-thomas


Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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