[nylug-talk] VMs, was: [ot] Non-pro, SOHO computer rack suggestions

[Brian Gupta]

I thought Barcelona was delayed? (I've been delaying a purchase,
because of this.)

On 7/28/07, Peter C. Norton <spacey-nylug at lenin.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 06:07:52PM -0400, jh wrote:
> > Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > > The quads bottleneck on anything that doesn't fit almost entirely into
> > > cache. You get abot 2x performance out of 4 cores for most apps that
> > > do more than run a tight loop for a long time.
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > If you're talking about Intel's Quads, yes, that's what I'd expect.
> >
> > However, if you're talking about the AMD 4x4 thing (which is just a
> > cost-reduced repackaging of a 2-way dual-core Opteron setup), i'd have
> > to disagree. We're seeing nearly linear scaling in our app, and it most
> > certainly doesn't fit into cache.
> >
> > We love the AMD stuff, even if the benchmarks make it look bad to the
> > overclocking crowd.
>
> I was speaking to the intels. The AMD quads are only just getting out
> there now.
>
> -Peter
>
> --
> The 5 year plan:
> In five years we'll make up another plan.
> Or just re-use this one.
>
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