Performance evaluation of the IBM SP and the Compaq AlphaServer SC

  • Authors:
  • Patrick H. Worley

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Bldg. 6012, Oak Ridge, TN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has recently installed both a Compaq AlphaServer SC and an IBM SP, each with 4-way SMP nodes, allowing a direct comparison of the two architectures. In this paper, we describe our initial evaluation. The evaluation looks at both kernel and application performance for a spectral atmospheric general circulation model, an important application for the ORNL systems.