[Bioclusters] SGI Altix benchmarking whitepaper

[Joe Landman]

James Cuff wrote:

> It's a really nice paper.  I have one tiny little observation.
> 
> The L3 cache of the 6MB Madison has always made a huge difference.

That and linking against MKL on the Itanium, and using icc on the 
Opteron w/o ACML/MKL, and using the wrong version of PGI so that only 4 
threads could be tested on an 8 way system.

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