[Info-vax] Floating point emulation of OpenVMS / Alpha / ES

[Nick K]

Most of what I'm looking at is single-threaded software, think Fortran scientific applications that have been around for a really long time.  The newer versions were compiled with the IEEE floating points (T), the older versions were not.  If I narrow things down to a half dozen emulators I want to look into, and all vendors want to give me a trial, this would still take a week or two, for me to configure systems and run benchmarks (unfortunately, my boss has other ideas for my time).  This is why I'm asking if something is already available, or heuristically known.  SpecFP?  FLOPS?  Emulator vendor A's pet project is IO bound, emulator vendor B's pet project is Int bound, emulator vendor C's pet project is Fortran bound?  Given that EmuVM and AVT have offices that are 5 km apart, I assume there must be some significant differences between all the various emulators.