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Subject: Re: Intel four-way 2.8 Ghz system is just Amazing ! - Not hardly

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 08:55:20 11/12/03

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On November 11, 2003 at 23:42:45, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>My point is: it's possible that due to the fact that quad Opteron is NUMA -- >not SMP -- system, for SMP-only program performance on quad Opteron can be
>worse than on *real* quad SMP system, even when for one CPU Opteron
>performance is much better. Itanium was used only as an example of such
>system, I never recommended rewriting any program for it.

I don't understand how. The NUMA part is RAM. Even worst case on the Opteron
RAM is faster than Xeon SMP. So how could it ever be worse?

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GCP



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