A DEC Alpha at http://www.nwoca.ohio.gov/
A DEC VAXstation 4000 at http://bnlstb.bio.bnl.gov/
A SGI Challenge L Server at http://reality.sgi.com/
Times are for the delivery of fast pages. Since the times were so close, we used the spread between fast and slow pages to resolve the first place tie. As you see, the best performing servers in the Race were workstations on high speed connections. This is as expected.
The surprising news is that even a small server that is well matched to its load can perform very well. Some Intel 486 or Mac 68040 servers proved capable of delivering our test page in under 16 seconds. On the other hand, an overloaded Sun Ultra was taking over 90 seconds to deliver some pages. Site load proved crucial to delivery performance.
Last updated 16 Sep 96 by td@timedancer.com.