Re: Question on Opteron performance

Stephen Robert Norris wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:50, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
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>>Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>Opertons have built in memory controllers so they scale better than
>>intel chips. See http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1982
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>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...
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>    Stephen
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And here is a nice pretty picture of the architecture of a 4 way Opteron.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/AM190_briefv3.pdf

I know which architecture I prefer, the one without a central hub.
Whether the Opteron will perform well for PG I have no idea but we also
are planning some 4 way Opteron boxes to beef up our data center. We
will probably do some benchmarking on those bad boys when we get them
and post it to pgsql-performance if anyone is interested.

Nick