Re: Question on Opteron performance

Sun is selling Opterons nowadays, I actually got a call from a Sun
salesman. Could be good. (not 4-way though...)

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/specs.html

Stephen Robert Norris wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:50, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
>
>>Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is this true? Did they really double the size of the memory bus, or is
>>>it a case of 4 CPUs fighting for the same memory bandwidth that 2 had
>>>before?
>>>
>>
>>Opertons have built in memory controllers so they scale better than
>>intel chips. See http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1982
>
>
> I didn't realise that. Thanks for the pointer. We're going to be buying
> some more servers soon, I should look at Opterons I guess...
>
>     Stephen


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