Re: T2000 series and statistical software

Oh! Good point. The T5220 has "eight floating point units," according
to Sun's technical specs. Have any of you out there used this model
for number crunching?



On Mar 17, 2:20 pm, "Heinz Müller" <onkelhe...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is floating point performance important? If it is, wait for the new SPARC
chips with a FP unit per core rather than one shared between all the
cores.

--
Robert A Heinlein: Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark
cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there.

And how about T5220 as number cruncher?

Heinz

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