--------------------------------------- BENCHMARK TESTS, RESULTS AND ANALYSIS --------------------------------------- 7 Loops of the following calculation were performed on a single machine versus the 7Node Clustopium system -------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 X { 1 000 000 X (COUNTER^(COUNTER*3.1413)-COUNTER)+1 1 000 000 X dnaHash("ACGT") } -------------------------------------------------------------------- Results -------------------------------------------------------------------- Single CPU Benchmark -AMD K6 2-3D 500Mhz 320Meg Ram -------------------------------------------------------------------- Started at: 1077370449854 Dinished at: 1077370508429 took: 58.575 Seconds -------------------------------------------------------------------- 7xNode 1xServer Benchmark -1 X AMD K6 2-3D 500Mhz 320Meg Ram -7 X AMD K6 2(450Mhz OC->500Mhz) 64Meg Ram -------------------------------------------------------------------- Started at: 1077371619867 Dinished at: 1077371642750 took: 22.883 Seconds -------------------------------------------------------------------- Analysis -------------------------------------------------------------------- Time difference (58.575 - 22.883)= 35.692 in favour of Clsutopium Clustopium did the calculations 35.692 Seconds faster the the cingle cpu machine --------------------------------------------------------------------