AMD Opteron memory bandwidth (was Re: CPUs for a Beowulf)

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Chris Samuel wrote:

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> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 04:18 am, John Hearns wrote:
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> > Seriously though, you might find that 64bit AMDs aren't that expensive.
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> My understanding is that memory bandwidth with Opterons scales with the number 
> of CPUs due to the HyperTransport architecture, which could be a big plus to 
> some people.
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Not really an answer to your question, but I found this article on the 
Hammer architecture (from DEcember last year).
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/amd-hammer-family/index.html

I think it is good - has discussionof of memory timings, caches, 
HyperTransport etc. Worth a read.


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