Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:13:22 11/10/02
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On November 10, 2002 at 00:20:00, Jeremiah Penery wrote: Where is the 8 processor shared memory K7 machine that AMD promised a few years ago? I guess opteron is just something like that. >On November 09, 2002 at 18:44:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On November 09, 2002 at 15:45:10, Aaron Gordon wrote: >> >>Though their math is dead wrong indeed, also their statement is >>a joke. Saying for example that the I3 is worse than the Opteron. >> >>Looks like a big joke statement to me. Those processors aren't >>even in the same league competing, also parallel performance >>of the I3 will completely blow away that opteron on the left >>and right of course. > >I suppose that is why Cray is building an Opteron machine and not an Itanium >machine... > >>Itanium2 is around $8000 a cpu (you can get it here and there for $7300 now >>for 1 Ghz, and the 900Mhz version a lot cheaper). >> >>I would be pretty amazed if Opteron is near that price class where the >>Itanium3 will be for sure. > >Since when is price directly proportional to performance?
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