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  • Re: Dual Xeon Linux vs. dual G5 : Where can I find directspeed comparison?

    From Michael Doster@michael.doster@verizon.net to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 04, 2003 19:23:52
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    in article 33jbgv8451jjl9umn0c47peprnmlv10sjq@4ax.com, Josiah Fizer at jfizer@classy.com wrote on 7/4/03 2:50 PM:

    On 4 Jul 2003 11:46:50 -0700, imouttahere@mac.com (Heywood Mogroot)
    wrote:

    pack@eos.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) wrote in message
    news:<be1j8c$mdl$1@news.ucar.edu>...
    While the scalar code (integer and floating point) speed
    of the G5 is clearly similar to that of p4 machines,
    the big performance gain is still with code that can
    be vectorized.

    And broken into multiple worksets for parallel processing.

    P4 has its "hyperthreading". Dual G5's, with the supporting memory
    controller, are the real thing.

    Complicating these comparisons is AMD's Opteron platform, which
    appears to offer competitive bang-for-the-buck in multiprocessing
    applications.

    One thing's for sure, the coming year is going to be a good year for
    the high-end PC/workstation user... 3-way competition!

    =Heywood=

    And I'll keep working away on my dual, quad and eight way CPU Sun
    systems and wondering what all the fuss is about.


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    1. You know you're sharing your Sun dualie and the eight-headed beast with everyone and their mother who happens to be on the same LAN and have access
    to all your lovely CPUs?

    And

    2. Exactly how fast are the CPUs on yours, the two CPU Suns I deal with
    daily use 360 MHz Ultra SPARC II and our two 8-headed beasts have 400 MHz
    Ultra SPARC II?

    Michael

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