Subject: Re: off-topic: maximizing compute/$ in a compute cluster
To: Chris Jones <cjones@honors.montana.edu>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/14/1998 17:59:33
In message <Pine.NEB.4.02.9808141549020.11157-100000@rupert.honors.montana.edu>
>We're primarily interested in floating point, so one suggestion has been a
>bunch of MMX i386's. But as far as I know, there's no compiler that
>outputs MMX instructions for unix.
That's OK, MMX doesn't help floating point; in fact, the MMX instructions
use the same registers as the FPU, so you can't mix them very much.
-s