Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 10:30:18 02/16/04
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On February 16, 2004 at 12:04:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 16, 2004 at 11:11:14, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On February 16, 2004 at 10:49:41, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7965000.htm >>> >>>"Intel has been secretly working on technology that would add the functions of a >>>64-bit chip to its standard chips. By turning a standard Intel 32-bit chip into >>>a 64-bit chip, a computer can handle more data-intensive jobs, such as running >>>massive databases. Since AMD has been successful with its 64-bit offering, Intel >>>has been under pressure by customers who are looking at other options for the >>>low-end servers." >>> >>> >>>Finally...the Itanic has sunk. >> >>It is about time because the Dual Opteron is much faster at the moment: >>http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=opt248vsxeon32a&page=5 > > >You are comparing apples and oranges. There is not a lot of difference in >performance of opteron and recent itaniums. Except opteron runs old x86 stuff >very fast while itanium does not. But for real 64 bit applications, compiled by >64 bit compilers, running on 64 bit operating systems, _both_ are very good... I wasn't comparing apples and oranges. At the moment a Dual Opteron is much faster than a non itaniums ( Dual Xeon do NOT support 64 bit applications :-) Jorge
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