Unix Shell session listing

Here is a listing of the Unix commands and output executed on 21 May 1998 to make and time the same program, sumtest.f, on four machines:
strauss
Sun Ultra Enterprise 4000 (250 MHz UltraSPARC CPUs each with 4MB of Cache)
joplin
Cray Research J916/8-102 (200 MHz Cray-compatible CPU)
mozart
IBM RS/6000, model 990 (64KB data cache)
gershwin
SGI Power Challenge XL system (R10000 CPU with 2MB cache)
indri[1]% cd f
indri[2]% cat sumtest.f
*234567 program sumtest real*16 r,term,sum,exact,error integer nmax,bits,digits parameter (nmax=19999999) * mathematica expression: r:=-Exp[Log[1/2]/(nmax+1)] r = -0.99999996534264157256899498887665177157834137q0 * mathematica expression: exact:=(1-r^(nmax+1))/(1-r) exact = 0.250000004332169878499657750231851815195062251q0 write(*,'(a,g47.40)') ' exact = ',exact term = 1 sum = term do n=1,nmax,1 term = r*term sum = sum+term enddo write(*,'(a,g47.40)') ' sum = ',sum error = abs(sum-exact)/exact bits = -int(log(error)/log(2.0q0)) digits = -int(log(error)/log(10.q0)) write(*,'(a,g14.6)') ' relative error',error write(*,'(a,i5,a,i5)') ' digits',digits,', bits',bits end
indri[3]% rsh strauss uname -a
SunOS strauss.udel.edu 5.5.1 Generic_103640-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
indri[4]% rcp sumtest.f strauss:f
indri[5]% rsh strauss make f/sumtest
f77 -o f/sumtest f/sumtest.f f/sumtest.f: MAIN sumtest:
indri[6]% rsh strauss time f/sumtest
exact = 0.2500000043321698784996577502318518011302 sum = 0.2500000043321698784996577502061046696309 relative error 0.102989E-27 digits 27, bits 92 70.06u 0.01s 1:10.69 99.1%
indri[7]% rsh joplin uname -a
sn9108 sn9108 8.0.4 sos.0 CRAY J90
indri[8]% sed 's/q0/d0/g' sumtest.f | rsh joplin 'cat >! f/sumtest.f'
indri[9]% rsh joplin make f/sumtest
cf77 f/sumtest.f -o f/sumtest
indri[10]% rsh joplin time f/sumtest
exact = 0.2500000043321698784996577502349000000000 sum = 0.2500000043321698784996623916085000000000 relative error 0.185655E-22 digits 22, bits 75 68.9130u 0.7499s 1:25 81%
indri[11]% rsh mozart uname -a
AIX mozart 2 3 000010368000
indri[12]% rcp sumtest.f mozart:f
indri[13]% rsh mozart make f/sumtest
xlf -O f/sumtest.f -o f/sumtest ** sumtest === End of Compilation 1 === 1501-510 Compilation successful for file sumtest.f.
indri[14]% rsh mozart time f/sumtest
exact = .2500000043321698784996577502318507900169 sum = .2500000043321698784996577501915911504595 relative error .161039E-27 digits 27, bits 92 13.0u 0.0s 0:39 32% 19+135k 0+0io 1pf+0w
indri[15]% rsh gershwin uname -a
IRIX64 gershwin 6.2 03131016 IP25
indri[16]% rcp sumtest.f gershwin:f
indri[17]% rsh gershwin make f/sumtest
f77 -64 -o -o f/sumtest f/sumtest.f
indri[18]% rsh gershwin time f/sumtest
exact = 0.2500000043321698784996577502318508000000 sum = 0.2500000043321698784996577502018617000000 relative error 0.119956E-27 digits 27, bits 92 20.6u 0.0s 0:23 86% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w