[r-t] Composition search?

[Alan Burlison]

>> It's a single machine - 3.6Ghz, 256 HW threads, 256Gb memory.

> Sounds very useful! What processor(s) is inside that then?

SPARC - it's one of these:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc/oracle-sparc/t5-2/sparc-t5-2-ds-1922871.pdf

> I can send you a copy of SMC32 to play with if you like - mail me. Needs
> Windows to run I'm afraid. It was coded up and optimised in the far-off days
> of the Pentium MMX, so it is a bit old and creaky; a high level language
> parallelizing over a handful of cores with a decent algorithm would
> certainly beat it, however for the time being it's still a useful benchmark
> to aim at.

I don't have anything with any oomph that runs windows, so I'd be
unlikely to be able to run SMC32 any faster than anyone else already
has :-)

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Alan Burlison
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