[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Michael Kraemer]

John Wallace schrieb:

> Cache, on the other hand, *is* somewhere where IA64 has progressed.
> But if an x86-64 chip had 24MB of L3 on-chip, as today's IA64s have,
> how fast would that be on a cache-friendly benchmark?  And how
> expensive would it be, and how profitable? And just for laughs, 'cos
> it wouldn't have 64bit addressing or arithmetic, how fast would a VAX
> with 24MB of L3 cache be 

Funny idea this, most VAXstation models (except the better 4000's)
allowed just this amount of normal RAM.
It would mean they'd probably run at full clock speed,
so something like 100Mhz for the fastest models.
Maybe this also translates into 100 MIPS for the simplest
instructions.

> when running the 32bit stuff which is still
> good enough for huge numbers of people?

well, maybe, but modern bloatware (like browsers)
eats that amount of RAM just to be loaded.