From: Josiane Tack (Josiane.Tack@dstu.univ-montp2.fr)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 11:10:05 EDT
hello,
the original message is:
>Dear all,
>
>I got a brand new DEC ALPHA DS10 ( proc 21264A at 600 Mhz and 1GB RAM,
>Tru64 UNIX v5.1). We run FLUENT a commercial code for solving fluid
>mecanic (100000
>nodes calculation) on it and for comparison on a low price Intel celeron
>at 800MHz (128 MB RAM - Windows 2000).
>In both cases, Fluent is the only soft running and we use internal disk
>for input/output. Performance on the Intel proc is about 10% better than
>on the ALPHA and I am on the point to put this
>ALPHA through the window!
>I guess that (memory) configuration of the ALPHA might be set unwell,
>but I don't know what modification to try. According to bentchmark (we
>found only bentchmark for DS20 - 800MHz to compare to
>PIII- 1GHz) the ALPHA station should be much more faster than the Pentium.
>
>Thanks for your help.
the answer is:
If you have not tuned the kernel, I would suggest running sys_check and note
the tuning suggestions there.
As root:
# sys_check > /tmp/hostname.html
thank very much to:
Tom Kemp
Regis Carlier
Dan Harrington
bests regards
Josiane Tack
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E-Mail: Josiane.Tack@dstu.univ-montp2.fr
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