[Pw_forum] Pentium-M versus Itanium

[Paolo Giannozzi]

On Mar 13, 2008, at 20:50 , Miguel Martínez Canales wrote:

> PS: I also swear that the very same Itanium machine used to run  
> twice as
> fast as the same laptop, although the free FORTRAN compilers have  
> changed
> a lot in the last couple of years.

and I swear that I hate benchmarking. Anyway, you can find a benchmark
that will tell you something (as opposed to those you tried, that  
will tell you
nothing, maybe even less than nothing) here:
    http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/benchmark.tgz
Paolo
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