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Subject: some questions about the itanium2 relative to opteron

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:13:31 06/30/04


In the following table you can see that the itanium2 is better than the opteron
inspite having less processors

see http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06

Itanium2 1.5 is place 9 in the list when opteron2.2 is place 10 in the list
inspite of the fact that opteron2.2 ghz has 2560 processors against 1936
proccesors of Itanium2.

The person who I talked with him tell me that there is already Itanium2 1.6 and
1.7 and he claims that the Itanium is new technology and the only reason to use
the opteron and not the Itanium in the world championship is probably money.

He claims that for the same money I can get better things from AMD but the best
that I can get if money is not a problem is from Intel.

I want to know if this is really the case?

I can add that I will not get the opteron for the world championship.
They told me that they cannot get the opteron148 or opteron248 and the options
that they can get for me is opteron246(1.4ghz) or Opteron142(1.6ghz)

I decided that these options are not acceptable and the AMD3000 (2.0 ghz) is
probably better.

Uri



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