Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.org.decus,comp.sys.dec,comp.benchmark
Subject: DECUS DFWLUG ALPHA AXP benchmark data (from DEC)
From: system@fallout.lonestar.org
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:36:48 CST
Organization: DECUS DFWLUG BBS *Dallas*TX*

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=Volume 2 Number 11-1                                 November 12th, 1992 =
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EXTRA EDITION EXTRA EDITION EXTRA EDITION EXTRA EDITION EXTRA EDITION 

                  *DIGITAL ANNOUCES ALPHA AXP SYSTEMS*

EXTRA EDITION EXTRA EDITION EXTRA EDITION EXTRA EDITION EXTRA EDITION 

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VOLUME 2 NUMBER 11-1    INDEX (in this issue)
   
PAGE 1   *  ALPHA AXP family of processors (announced November 10th, 1992)
PAGE 2   *  ALPHA AXP 64-bit Benchmark Data (OpenVMS)

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VOLUME 2 NUMBER 11-1  
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        THE NEW ALPHA AXP FAMILY OF 64-BIT PROCESSORS FROM DIGITAL

The DFWLUG was treated to a special showing of the brand new DEC 3000
model 500S AXP 64-bit workstation at it's Meeting last Tuesday.

Performance was incredible on this system which ran the OSF/1 operating 
system and delivered nearly 180 MicroVAX II units of performance. 
Demonstrations of multi-media, Fractal generation, graphics, Xwindow 
applications and more running all at the same time from this single 
powerhouse of a workstation.  As time was short during our meeting 
Digital promised that at the next meeting the DFWLUG could reboot the 
same workstation off of it's other disk and run OpenVMS's demos and compilers.

Digital also provided briefing and benchmark packets for all of the new 
ALPHA servers and workstations included in this family of 64-bit processors.

The DEC 3000 400S AXP and DEC 3000 500S AXP begin the family as desktop and 
deskside workstations with 159 and 179.7 MicroVAX Units of Performance.  
Standard SCSI perpherals, turbochannel and standard options will make 
these systems the price performance leaders of 1992-1993.

The DEC 4000 model 610 AXP starts as single, 193.2 MicroVAX Units of
Performance departmental system/server and can add another CPU card 
for even greater CPU throughput.  Standard Future Bus peripherals
will almost double the I/O possible with workstation systems and 
provide very high performance as a file server or database engine.

The DEC 7000 model 610 AXP is an SMP multi-processor computer room system 
that starts at over 217 MicroVAX Units of Performance and in a 4 CPU 
configuration tops out at over 604 Specthruput numbers.  Up to 4 XMI
channels or 2 XMI and 2 future Bus I/O channels make this a formitable
Server for thousands of workstations or PCs.

The DEC 1000 model 610 AXP is an SMP multi-processor Mainframe class 
engine that starts at 239 MicroVAX Units of Performance and then turns
on the power.  


Benchmark results are for Alpha OpenVMS and should continue to improve
as Digital refines and continues to optimise their compilers for this 
new 64-bit risc Computing Family.

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               Alpha AXP Peformance Benchmarks for OpenVMS


BENCHMARK      DEC 3000    DEC 3000    DEC 4000    DEC 7000    DEC 10000
               Model       Model       Model       Model       Model
               400S AXP    500S AXP    610 AXP     610 AXP     610 AXP

SPECmark89      108.1       121.5       136.2       167.4       184.1

SPECthruput89
        1-CPU   na          na          131.2       161.4       tbd
        2-CPU   na          na          248.8       308.7       tbd
        3-CPU   na          na          na          454.4       tbd
        4-CPU   na          na          na          604.4       654.6

SPECint92       65.3         74.3        83.5        96.6       106.5

SPECfp92       112.2        126.0       143.1       182.1       200.4

SPECrate_int92 
        1-CPU 1549.3       1762.1      1985.8      2188.6       tbd
        2-CPU   na          na         3816.1      4291.4       tbd
        3-CPU   na          na          na         6306.5       tbd
        4-CPU   na          na          na         8366.8      9107.9

SPECrate_fp92 
        1-CPU 2631.6       2967.4      3317.1      4126.0       tbd
        2-CPU   na          na         6214.5      8135.1       tbd
        3-CPU   na          na          na        11859.8       tbd
        4-CPU   na          na          na        15739.4     17187.2

Dhrystone
   V1.1 (Mips)
        1-CPU  129.9        146.7       158.8       177.3       194.5
        2-CPU   na          na          317.6       354.6       389.0
        3-CPU   na          na          na          531.9       583.5
        4-CPU   na          na          na          709.2       778.0

LINPACK 
  64-bit
Double Prec
100x100         26.4        30.2        36.3         38.6        42.5
(MFLOPS)
1000x1000       70.8        79.9        86.4        102.1       111.6


CERN
Benchmark
Suite           16.9        19.0        21.0         23.6        26.0


Perfect
Benchmark
Suite
(MFLOPS)
(geometric
   mean)        18.1        20.4        22.9         26.0         28.6


DR&N
Labs CPU2
(MicroVAX
 Units of
 Performance)  159.1       179.7       193.2        217.9         239.3



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Dhrystone scales linearly
na=Not Applicable
tbd= To Be Determined