Opteron announcement

[Jeff Nguyen]

Hi Bill,

Here is an interesting benchmark result of the Opteron platforms
running on the combination of 32-bit/64-bit operating system and
applications. For this benchmark, Povray 3D ray tracer is used.

Platform                                 Render Time (smaller is faster)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Opteron Model 242                41m 44s
   1.6ghz, 1MB L2, 32-bit OS (RH 8.0), 32-bit Povray binary

Opteron Model 242                41m 44s
   1.6ghz, 1MB L2, 32-bit OS (RH 8.0), 32-bit Povray binary

Opteron Model 242                41m 44s
   1.6ghz, 1MB L2, 64-bit OS (UnitedLinux x86-64 v1.0), 32-bit Povray binary

Opteron Model 242                30m 12s
   1.6ghz, 1MB L2, 64-bit OS (UnitedLinux x86-64 v1.0), 64-bit Povray binary

Intel Xeon 3.06ghz                    31m 11s
   32-bit OS (RH 8.0), 32-bit Povray binary

Jeff

ASL Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Broadley" <bill at math.ucdavis.edu>
To: <beowulf at beowulf.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:35 PM
Subject: Opteron announcement


>
> Apparently the link to http://www.amd.com/opteronservers just went
> live.  Tons of cool docs/benchmarks.
>
> SPECfp rate 2000 (dual cpu)
> ================
> it2-1.0  30.7
> amd-244  26.7
> amd-242  25.1
> amd-240  22.7
> Xeon-2.8 14.7
>
> SPECfp_peak 2000 (single cpu)
> ================
> it2-1.0   1431
> amd-144   1219
> Xeon-3.06 1103
>
> SPECint_peak 2000 (single cpu)
> =================
> Amd-144   1170
> Xeon-3.06 1130
> IT2-1.0    719
>
> SPECint_rate 2000 (dual cpu)
> =================
> amd-244  26.8
> amd-242  24.0
> amd-240  21.2
> Xeon-2.8 19.6
> it2-900  15.5
>
> SPECint_rate2000 (windows) 4p
> =============================
> amd-844     48.5
> amd-852     45.1
> amd-840     40
> Xeon MP 2.0 34.7
> it2-1.0     32.9
>
> SPECfp_rate20000 4P
> ===================
> it2-1.0  49.3
> amd-844  49.2
> amd-842  45.0
> amd-840  40.7
> Xeon-2.0 20.2
>
> Oh and one more interesting link:
> Software Optimization Guide for AMD athlon 64 and AMD Opteron Processors
>
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739_7203,00
.html
>
> Amusingly all the submissions that I looked at the full reports for
> use the Intel compiler.  So the Opterons extra registers are ignored.
>
> Time will tell if 3rd party compilers that fully utilize the additional
> registers can win benchmarks against Intel's compiler.
>
> Based on the preliminary pricing I have the Opterons look to make for
> very nice beowulf nodes.
>
>
> --
> Bill Broadley
> Mathematics
> UC Davis
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