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Power5+ now off the road?

Saturday Mar 31, 2007

IBM lacks Power5+ benchmarks on new & old workloads that everyone else is publishing on. Why no lastest GHz full-system IBM p595 publications on:

  • SPECjbb2005?
  • SPECint_rate2006?
  • SPECfp_rate2006?
  • Linpack?
  • SPECint_2006?
  • SPECfp_2006?
  • ....the list goes on...
Don't they want comparisons? I hear IBM bloggers still love TPC-C so is the IBM p595 only suited for that very old (14-year old) test? The press and analysts are overwhelmingly seeing TPC-E the successor to the simplistic 13 year-old TPC-C. 7 years ago when Sun established a World Record TPC-C, Sun told the world the benchmark was too simplistic. It is good the see the rest of the industry is catching up. Sun never quotes 23-year old Dhrystones benchmark anymore either. :)

For those who may not remember, IBM didn't even end the EOL'ed SPECint_rate2000 on a high note: http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/rint2000.html, search for "1644" and "1513" Since we're talking history, I should be clear and state that by "1513" I wasn't talking about the year that Juan Ponce de Leon definitely is known to have sighted what is now the USA and claimed it for Spain. :)

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Posted at 09:00AM Mar 31, 2007 in IBM Follies
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