NM performance on AMD athlon vs. Intel P4 (or P3)

From: Joost de Jongh <J.deJongh@lapp.nl> Subject: NM performance on AMD athlon vs. Intel P4 (or P3) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:23:16 +0100 Hello, We are currently planning to purchase new hardware that will be mainly used for NM. Who has experience with NM on the AMD Athlon and/or the Intel P4 (or P3) platform ? If I am correct, the majority of NM's "workload" are floating point operations, but which type is most relevant for the fortran code that NM generates: multiplication, division, addition or subtraction ? AMD Athlon generally seems to be good at FPO's, but is the Compaq Fortran compiler expected to be optimized for P4 in the future ? Are there any existing NONMEM benchmarks known on AMD vs. Intel ? Thanks in advance for any ideas ! Regards, Joost DeJongh LAP&P Consultants Archimedesweg 31 2333 CM Leiden The Netherlands