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 More options Jun 12 2008, 5:17 am
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From: "David Frank" <dave_fr...@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:17:25 -0400
Local: Thurs, Jun 12 2008 5:17 am
Subject: Is Fortran Green?
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Noted:
15 "Intel Atom" cpu chips fit on a penny and if one is used in a future
desktop the chip uses about 3 watts hopefully with no noisy fan kicking
on/off like my present Dell 2.8ghz when its asked to number-crunch for
several minutes.

However the Atom runs at 1.6ghz and the only benchmark I have seen shows it
under-crunching my beloved old 900mhz Celeron, which ran quiet so I'm not
sure I can use it as a replacement for my Dell 2.8ghz.

Q.
Can anyone find confirmation that a Atom nearly 2x the clock speed of a
900mhz Celeron running fpu-intensive apps is significantly slower?
More controversial, can we claim that Fortran is greener than other
languages because its  number-crunching apps run faster?.


 
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