Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 21:56:38 02/18/04
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On February 19, 2004 at 00:49:33, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 19, 2004 at 00:40:09, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On February 19, 2004 at 00:33:08, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>Does Crafty run faster on Opteron or Itanium? >> >>It runs faster on 32-CPU Itanium system than on 4-CPU Opteron systems. :-) >> >>And answering your next question -- right now you cannot buy Opteron system with >>more than 4 CPUs, but you can buy 64-CPU Itanium system. Of course if you have >>enough money... > >Thanks Eugene. What about a single CPU? I saw your other post about new Itaniums >being released this year. Will they be faster than the Opterons? 9 MB of L3 >cache :) I doubt that. Opteron has too large clock advantage (currently 2.2GHz CPUs are shipped), and Crafty really doesn't need all that cache. 6Mb in current Itaniums is more than enough :-) Thanks, Eugeen
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