On 10/28/05 07:07 pm Derek W. Keoughan *wrote*:

[Didn't want to spoil your dinner by mentioning s**p again. ;-) ]

> "Even comparing the Opteron 270 to the Paxville Xeon 2.8 GHz, we still
> would opt for an AMD based solution. "  (Page 11)
> 
>  >But what about Opteron machines? Any known to work or not work
with eCS SMP?
> 
> I have a dual Opteron 246 machine here running eCS 1.2 SMP that I
> demonstrated at Warpstock 2005 in Hershey, PA... on RC5-72, it's
> pulling down about 20.1Mkeys/sec, compared to a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with
> HyperThreading that's getting about 4.4Mkeys/sec on the same test... or
> roughly 4.5x the speed while running two 2.0GHz cores...  AMD simply
> gets more work done per clock cycle, and consumes less power doing it.
> 
> That box even booted and ran the eCS demo CD with no hard drives
> physically present in the box (hot-swap cages were pulled).  I have
> witnesses! :-D

What motherboard for the Opterons?

-=-
Alan


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