Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:58:10 06/30/04
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On June 30, 2004 at 05:13:31, Uri Blass wrote: >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 have run on both. For integer programming (chess) the opteron is better. Not to mention being perfectly x86 compatible so that any x86 program will run at full speed. Itanium can't do that... Best bet is to look at SPEC numbers for both, particularly look at the crafty numbers since it is an integer program like yours... > >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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