Author: Michel van der List
Date: 12:04:06 06/02/00
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>The new 700 xeons won't go 4-way. To date, the fastest 4-way boxes are based on >the 550mhz xeons that are about a year old now. We have been waiting on faster >4-way chips, but Intel has not delivered. The 8-way boxes are huge kludges >that even in their best cases don't go 2x faster, just because memory can't keep >up. And then there is SMP search inefficiency. I ran on an 8-way box and was >not impressed at all (I ran on a 16-way alpha and was impressed out of my mind, >however. :) ) Was that the new GS box? It sure looks like DEC, eeerrr Compaq engineered a very nice box. Now if their marketing folks can only sell it... Michel
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