Last month I began a new series of reviews highlighting several NT Alpha-based workstations.
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The combination of a 64-bit 533MHz 21164PC Alpha processor and an Alpha PC 164SX motherboard produces a workstation with the kind of speed and performance that was only a dream a few years ago. When a 64-bit architecture becomes the industry standard, supplanting the 32-bit architecture that reigns today, it will bring about the same seismic shift in technology that Pentium processors produced when they entered the market. To give you a context for understanding overall NT Alpha system performance, I've coordinated my testing for this series with AIM Technology, which has been providing benchmark services for the NT environment since 1996. AIM's mission is to provide third-party performance and price-performance information to industry and government. I selected two of AIM's Workstation Benchmark metrics, WNT Peak Performance and WNT Sustained Performance, to test each Alpha system in this series. The peak performance test increases CPU, RAM, and disk caching to determine the maximum number of application jobs a system can process in 1 minute. The sustained performance test pushes a system by incrementally increasing tasks it must perform and measuring the number of application jobs per minute the system performs at the brink of failure.
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