[G4] Super_PI benchmarking

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

Here is link to a nice multi-platform benchmarking terminal  
application called Super PI. This program is cpu intensive and  
calculates the time in seconds to generate some pi digits. You know  
the 3.14... idea. It can extended it up about 33 million decimal  
places and times your system as it calculates it. It is really  
interesting and it runs on multiple platforms too including Mac OS X,  
Windows, Linux, Sun, etc...

About the software

http://www.super-computing.org/

Downloads for it http://ocing3.free.fr/FTP/overclocking/super_pi/ 
Kanada_lab/

Some of the testing that I have done at  2097152 digits of PI:

PowerMac G4 867Mhz QuickSilver with Mac os 10.4.5 took about  225  
seconds or 3 minutes  45 seconds.

Dell Inspiron with 1.6 GHz Intel Mobile Pentium 4, Windows Xp Pro Sp2  
took 4 minutes 13 seconds, same laptop running Ubuntu Linux 5.10 took  
3 minutes and 1 second, interesting right.

The fastest I have seen  was on a friends Dell laptop with a 2.0 GHz  
Intel Pentium M, it got 1 min 20 seconds on Windows XP with the 2  
million run...


Something to play around with... let me know what you other get if  
you want to try this

PS Could some one try this on a G5 system...

Daniel J. Brieck Jr.