Anyway, this Compaq thing seems to consist of 72 CPUs...
not exactly a good comparison. Worse, these things run NT.
NB, the test is to sort a terabyte in 50 minutes. Minimum required hard
disk thruput: 670 MBytes/second, or 48 MBytes/second per CPU. Hmmm. David's
box may be neat, but I doubt he can top that today... maybe next year?
NB2, the note, as usual, leaves out a few facts, like how long the records
are. I too can sort a terabyte in half a second, but only when I specify
that the record length is at least a GByte and that records consist
entirely of random data. Not very useful. ;-)
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