Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
From news@ireq.hydro.qc.ca Wed Jan 4 15:54:26 1995
From: brooker@toka.ireq-ccfm.hydro.qc.ca
Organization: Centre Canadien de Fusion Magnetique
Subject: speed of cray vs unix work stations

At our Fusion lab here, we have the TSC/LSC lower hybrid ray tracing code that
apparently takes a lot of time on a CRAY so that at most only 3 simulations
can be done per month. I am thinking of asking that the code be ported to a
UNIX work station. The million dollar question is how much slower is a powerful
UNIX work station than a CRAY? A factor of 10? 100? 1000?

Thanks- Peter Brooker
Centre canadien de fusion magnetique