Pentium4 vs Xeon

[Josip Loncaric]

José M. Pérez Sánchez wrote:

> [...]  we have been thinking about dual normal Pentium4 [...]

SMP operation and larger caches appear to be threshold features in 
Xeons.  Old Pentium III could be used in duals, but Intel's marketing 
has changed.  Normal Pentium4 is *not* dual processor enabled:

http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/processors/pentium4/index.htm?iid=ipp_browse+dsktopprocess_p4p&
http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/xeon/index.htm?iid=ipp_browse+srvrprocess_xeon512&

If you really want a fast dual CPU machine from Intel, you'll probably 
have to pay for a Xeon...

Sincerely,
Josip


_______________________________________________
Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org
To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf