Performance of AXP linux?

[HORNE at CMOD2.PFC.MIT.EDU (HORNE at CMOD2.PFC.MIT.EDU)]

Is the current state of BLADE solid enough to do useful work?
I've read the 0.3 notes and it looks like a fairly complete package, but
I'd like to hear from people who've tried it. 

I have an application which does lots of serious numbercrunching -- 
written in fortran 77, takes 24-48 hours to converge on a pentium 66.
f2c should handle it easily, as far as I can tell -- will be testing that
on my home machine.

I will be putting together a machine to run it on at work and am considering 
an Alpha, if the performance win justified the extra cost.


What sort of speed win could I hope to get over a pentium 66?

(Presumably I can scale within pentium family by clock frequency, so I would
expect a factor of 2 or so from a 133 mhz, etc.)  

					Thanks
                                              Steve
                                                   horne at pfc.mit.edu