Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 13:26:21 12/02/02
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On December 02, 2002 at 16:17:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Not looking for anything, just looking at. Doesn't hurt to learn about new stuff. Being a teacher it would seem you'd be more apt to want to learn. Maybe I'm crazy ;) >>>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... About all I can say is, "You'll see" :) Remember this comment. >>>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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