Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:17:25 12/02/02
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On December 02, 2002 at 15:35:25, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >Take a look at this: >http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/MPF_Hammer_Presentation.PDF >> What am I looking for? I'm talking _today_ not next year... for example... >> >>I hope they can deliver a quad opteron for a resonable price. They were talking >>about quad >>K7's two years ago and not a single instance has shown up yet. Intel talked >>about the 8-way >>boxes a while back and delivered a kludge there, using a "fusion" chipset to tie >>two 4-way >>clusters of processors together into a single 8-way box, but with terrible >>memory performance. >>They tried to offset that by only offering 2M L2 caches, but that drove the >>price up and didn't >>help memory-bound large applications at all... I hope the quad opterons don't >>end up in >>never-never land as the 8-way boxes did.. > >Here's a picture of a Quad opteron system if for some reason you think it's >never going to happen... >http://www.amdzone.com/articleimages/cpu/hammer/4popt.JPG >There are many Dual Opterons out as well.. They had "pictures" of quad K7 MBs as well. Never saw one on the street, however. Again, I don't see how to evaluate what's gonna be. Just what is that we can get our hands on... > >>If I recall, the 4=way dual 2.0ghz xeon is the fastest PC-class machine around >>right now, >>by a wide margin. And the heavier the load placed on it, the wider that gap >>becomes...
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