Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:59:24 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 18:15:52, Russell Reagan wrote: >On April 29, 2004 at 16:01:15, Robert Pawlak wrote: > >>Could make for a really cost effective SMP system! >> >>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1574332,00.asp >> >>Bob > >What exactly does "dual core" mean? Is it similar to the hyper threading of >Intel (where we see some speed improvements, but lesser than true dual machine), >or can we expect close to a 2x speedup for one of these "dual core" chips? Dual core is just like having two cpus, not the "sorta-like-2-slower-cpus" in hyper-threading. It means that at that point in time, any opteron will be a dual-cpu box.
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