Fortran on Sun Workstations

henry at zoo.toronto.edu henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Tue Mar 20 08:57:58 AEST 1990


>%We are thinking about buying some sun workstations. Our group is a bunch
>%of physical chemists. Our main computer need is number crunching...

I'm not current on the latest hardware from Sun, but in the past, people
who have examined number-crunching requirements carefully have seldom
bought Suns.  Mips, in particular, has consistently had considerably
better floating-point performance.



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