[Linux-ia64] Itanium gets supercomputing software

[Craig Tierney]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 17:53, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > about 1100 to 800 in favor of Pentium 4.  Bandwidth to memory as measured 
> > by stream triad is 50% better on the Itanium implying that you will get 
> > a larger percentage of peak for out-of-cache workloads.  Then there is 
> 
> until the next-gen P4 chipsets arrive (and they have).
> 
> > I would be interested in SPECFP and Stream Triad numbers for the 
> > Opteron if you have them.
> 
> me too </aol>.  but if I understand AMD's marketing "plan",
> we won't see the interesting Opteron systems at launch.
> that is, since Opteron bandwidth scales with ncpus, it's 
> really the 4-8-way systems that will look dramatically 
> more attractive than any competitors (cept maybe Marvel).
> 
drooling even more....

> it is sort of interesting that much of It2's rep rests on 
> fairly single-threaded benchmarks (cfp2000, stream).  but I don't
> see a lot of people buying uniprocessor It2's, and all It2
> systems use a shared 6.4 GB/s FSB.  by comparison, a dual-opt
> has 10.8 GB/s aggregate, which starts to be interesting.

Feel free to flame me if I am wrong, but the HP chipset for It2
is 8.5 GB/s.  The Intel chipset is 6.4 GB/s.  Each cpu can
push 6.4 GB/s.


> 
> I'm hoping AMD will get pumped and support PC3200 on apr 22.
> I fear that 4x and 8x systems will be late as usual.
> 

Lots to talk about on the 22nd!  

Did AMD pick Earth Day for any particular reason
to announce the new product?  I do not think this
is going to be a 'green' cpu.

Craig


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