Beowulf vs. SGI Origin 2000
Recomputed Hamiltonian: Beowulf outperforms Origin by a factor of 8
Stored Hamiltonian: Beowulf outperforms Origin by a factor of 2
- Origin has larger cache (4MB vs. 0.5MB) and better memory access.
- SGI Origin costs approximately 10-20 x more than the beowulf cluster