What machine can make it to 4 million digits of π first? Below is a comparison of a wide variety of machines.
Performance is measured is the number of seconds to compute 4 million digits. Relative speed is simply the number of times faster than the baseline (a 667MHZ PowerBook G4) a given machine is. All the binaries used are available on the pi_css5 main page.
Have a datapoint that I'm missing? Think you can do better? Send me the results and I'll be happy to add them to the list.
29/9/06 Okay, here are those Xeons. Zippy.
22/9/06 First Core 2 Duo results in, courtesy of the Apple store in SoHo. No Woodcrest Xeons yet though…
| Machine/OS/Processor speed and type/L2 Cache size | Performance (in seconds) |
Relative speed
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Apple Mac Pro/MacOS X 10.4/3000MHZ Xeon (Woodcrest)/4MB | 15.61 |
14.12
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Apple Mac Pro/MacOS X 10.4/2666MHZ Xeon (Woodcrest)/4MB | 18.39 |
11.99
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Apple iMac/MacOS X 10.4/2333MHZ Core 2 Duo/4MB | 19.81 |
11.13
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Apple iMac/MacOS X 10.4/2166MHZ Core 2 Duo/4MB | 20.32 |
10.85
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Apple iMac/MacOS X 10.4/2000MHZ Core 2 Duo/4MB | 21.46 |
10.27
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Apple Macbook Pro/MacOS X 10.4/2166MHZ Core Duo/4MB | 30.81 |
7.16
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Dell Dimension 8100/NetBSD 3.99/3000MHZ Pentim D/1MB | 32.57 |
6.77
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Apple iMac/MacOS X 10.4/2000MHZ Core Duo/2MB | 33.20 |
6.64
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Apple Macbook/MacOS X 10.4/1833MHZ Core Duo/2MB | 35.02 |
6.30
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Dell PowerEdge 1850/Ubuntu Linux 6.06/3000MHZ Xeon/2MB | 35.42 |
6.22
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IBM Thinkpad T60/Debian GNU Linux 3.1/1667MHZ Core Duo/2MB | 35.74 |
6.17
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HP RX 8620/HP-UX 11.23/1500MHZ Itanium 2/3MB | 36.42 |
6.05
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Dell Precision 470n/Ubuntu Linux 5.10/3200MHZ Xeon/1MB | 36.79 |
5.99
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Sun Fire X4100/Ubuntu Linux 6.06/2800MHZ Opteron 848/1MB | 37.62 |
5.86
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HP RX 2600/HP-UX 11.23/1400MHZ Itanium 2/3MB | 40.46 |
5.45
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HP Proliant BL20P/RedHat Linux AS 4.0/3066MHZ Xeon/1MB | 42.90 |
5.14
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Apple PowerMac G5 Quad/MacOS X 10.4/2500MHZ PowerPC G5/.5MB | 45.77 |
4.82
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HP Proliant DL145/RedHat Linux AS 4.0/2200MHZ Opteron 848/1MB | 45.86 |
4.81
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Apple PowerMac G5/MacOS X 10.4/2300MHZ PowerPC G5/.5MB | 47.63 |
4.63
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Dell Precision/Windows XP/2800MHZ Pentium 4/.25MB | 50.18 |
4.39
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HP RP3410/HP-UX 11.11/800MHZ PA8900/1.5MB | 52.47 |
4.20
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HP RX 2600/HP-UX 11.23/900MHZ Itanium 2/1.5MB | 58.57 |
3.76
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Apple PowerMac G5/MacOS X 10.3/1800MHZ PowerPC G5/.5MB | 59.46 |
3.71
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Compaq Evo N800/Windows XP/2400MHZ Pentium 4-M/.25MB | 70.74 |
3.12
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Gateway E4500/NetBSD 3.99/1600MHZ Pentium 4/.25MB |
72.87 |
3.03
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Apple iMac G5/MacOS X 10.3/1800MHZ PowerPC G5/.5MB | 73.07 |
3.02
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HP RP2470/HP-UX 11.11/750MHZ PA8700/1.5MB | 80.18 |
2.75
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Compaq ES47/Tru64 5.1/1000 MHZ Alpha 21364/1.75MB | 96.48 |
2.29
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Sun Blade 2000/Solaris 2.8/900MHZ UltraSPARC III+/8MB | 97.39 |
2.26
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Compaq ES45/Tru64 5.1/1000 MHZ Alpha 21264b/8MB | 99.21 |
2.22
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HP Proliant DL360 G2/RedHat Linux AS 4.0/1400MHZ Pentium III/.5MB | 127.12 |
1.74
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Apple iBook G4/MacOS X 10.4/1333MHZ PowerPC G4/.5MB | 136.76 |
1.61
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HP Proliant DL360/RedHat Linux AS 4.0/1200MHZ Pentium III/.5MB | 137.80 |
1.60
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Dell Precision 420/Ubuntu Linux 5.10/933MHZ Pentium III/.25MB | 148.27 |
1.48
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Power Macintosh G4/MacOS X 10.4/933MHZ PowerPC G4/.25MB | 161.19 |
1.37
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Sun Enterprise 5500/Solaris 2.8/400MHZ UltraSPARC II/8MB | 169.23 |
1.30
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Dell Precision 420/Ubuntu Linux 5.10/733MHZ Pentium III/.25MB | 170.45 |
1.29
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Dell Optiplex 150/Ubuntu Linux 5.10/1000MHZ Pentium III/.25MB | 171.57 |
1.29
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Sun Blade 1000/Solaris 2.8/750MHZ UltraSPARC III/8MB | 177.76 |
1.24
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Apple iMac G4/MacOS X 10.3/800MHZ PowerPC G4/0.25MB | 211.02 |
1.04
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Apple Powerbook G4/MacOS X 10.3/667MHZ PowerPC G4/0.25MB | 220.47 |
1.00
 |
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HP Alphaserver DS20/Debian GNULinux 3.0/500MHZ Alpha 21264a | 238.59 |
0.92
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Apple Powerbook G3/MacOS 9.2/333MHZ PowerPC G3/.5MB | 425.45 |
0.52
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Apple Powerbook G3/MacOS 8.1/250MHZ PowerPC G3/.5MB | 776.39 |
0.28
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