[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Feb 6 19:52:44 EST 2023


On 2/6/2023 8:04 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> VAX-6000 was the first time I encountered SMP (symmetric multi
> processing) on VAX. We were running a 6430 which meant 3 CPUs
> 
> Before that I worked for a year on a pair of VAX-8550 configured as a
> VAXcluster
> 
> Our VAX-6430 system felt faster than the pair of clustered VAX-8550

Based on VUPS ratings then I would expect:
- multi job throughput to be the same
- single job execution slower
- interactive responsiveness better

Arne





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