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Originally posted by jrch2k8 View Postwell in economy there are a lot of calculations that require an FPU, is a bit more complex than count money using cents.
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With "cents" I meant the smallest unit in your currency. I don't have USD in my walletLast edited by droste; 11 August 2013, 12:10 PM.
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Originally posted by droste View PostI'm not saying there's no need for an FPU (F as in floating)! I'm saying that you don't need a special fixed point unit.
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With "cents" I meant the smallest unit in your currency. I don't have USD in my wallet
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Originally posted by dibal View PostAs long as you didn't have infinite Bits to store your (intermediate) Results, rounding hits. Are there Papers about this special FP Format available ?
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Originally posted by Obscene_CNN View Postwell here are some SAP Standard Application Benchmarks. (Note that 8 core Power 7+ chips could be used to level the playing field )
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(POWER7+, 3.41 Ghz) IBM Flex System p270 Compute Node, 4 Processors / 24 Cores
Dialog Steps Per Hour : 4103000
SAPS : 68380
Fully Processed Line Items Per Hour : 1367670
(Intel Xeon Processor E5-4650, 2.7 Ghz) Dell PowerEdge R820, 4 Processors / 32 Cores
Dialog Steps Per Hour : 4241000
SAPS : 70680
Fully Processed Line Items Per Hour : 1413670
IBM p750 POWER7 3.55Ghz 4s/32c/128T - 93,080 SAPS
http://download.sap.com/download.epd?co ... 3BD00B024B
IBM Flex p260 POWER7+ 4.1Ghz 2s/16c/64T - 54,700 SAPS
http://download.sap.com/download.epd?co ... 2D331FE3FF
Bear in mind that the top bin 8 core Power7+ is 4.22Ghz which hasn't been tested yet on this benchmark.
Per core Power7+ is around 50-60% faster than Intel.
IBM will be licensing the Power8, not Power7. A couple of articles just popped up:
Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: generative AI, Windows, mobile, Apple/enterprise, office suites, productivity software, and collaboration software, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
IBM disclosed some of the tchnical details of its Power8 chip on Monday, with the expectation that technologies like "Watson" will get even better.
If what IBM is quoting is true that Power8 is 3x faster than Power7, this makes Power8 up to 4.5x faster than the fastest Intel chip.
"You can imagine if you have 3x the performance of a Power7, you can do some very interesting things,? Steucheli said.
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