SGI - Origin 2000

[juli mallett]

* Philippe St-Jacques <eukaryote at hotmail.com> [ Date: 2004-06-15 ]
	[ w.r.t. SGI - Origin 2000 ]
> Hi. I will have soon 2 SGI Origin 2000 racks in here and I'd really like to 
> be informed about how well your work is progressing on those machines. Each 
> rack has 16 R10000 processors clocked at 250 mhz each, with 4 gig ram.
> 
> I am also concerned about how is GCC on mips64, code optimization and 
> quality, since some people told me it was quite poor in IRIX.

GCC is getting quite better on MIPS in most recent revisions.  I've
seen numbers quoted around the "30%" range, though I'm not sure if
that's with 64-bit longs and ptrs, what processor that's on, etc.
I've not tried to do any measurements of it, but it does look a lot
better in ways.

Targetting an Origin 2000 is a ways off.  First have to get everything
else done (multi-user, not crashy, devices supported, etc.)  Then doing
the CPU and machine-specific stuff is a bit of work.  Then doing SMP is
a bit of work.

I don't know of anyone with time+hardware+interest.  By the time I have
interest and it's feasible, I'll probably be short on time, let alone
time to work with remore hardware.

Hope this helps.

Thanx,
juli.
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juli mallett.  jmallett at freebsd.org.  adrift in the pacific.