Convex C-1

[masson at convex.UUCP]

>Has anyone had a chance to do any UNIX benchmarks on the Convex C-1?
>
>					Bill Mitchell
>					whm.arizona at csnet-relay
>					{noao,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!whm

We have run quite a number of benchmarks on the C-1.  The
C-1 is touted as "The World's First Affordable Supercomputer"
because of its Cray-like implementation.   Because of its
integrated vector processing, benchmarks that are highly
vectorizable tend to really shine.  Typical performance
for traditional supercomputer benchmarks (e.g. "Livermore
Loops") put the C-1 at about 1/4 of the CRAY, or about 
40-60x the VAX.

Note that these benchmarks are FORTRAN and take advantage of
the Convex FORTRAN compiler, which does vectorization and
optimization for you.  

Bob Masson
convex!masson