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On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:32 +0000, Gavin Seddon wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> thanks Duncan. I have renamed this since the topic has changed and it |
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> isn't really relevant to updating. Has anyone seen this months new |
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> scientist? There's an article about OS's used for browsing. It gives |
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> the percentages of different OS used to browse the www. Windows is by |
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> far the most and Linux has only a few percent, in the UK. |
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> An old colleague of mine proposed it was because ms-farce is 'better'. |
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> I pointed out could it not be due to people in the UK generally being |
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> uneducated or lazy. Since at Manchester in our lab we use Fedora as |
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> it's quick to install and very easy to use so undergrads don't get |
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> intimidated. If I had my way, Debian would be better for the majority |
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> of systems with Gentoo on the Opterons. |
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> I have found Gentoo to be excellent due to it's configurability (is this |
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> a word) and speed. I have no intention of changing now however, I am |
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> always 'on-the-lookout for a superior workstation so I may change in the |
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> future to ia64 Gentoo. Are Iitanium machines the best (robust/speed). |
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> Or, are the Opterons or athlon64 better. For that matter how do amd |
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> machines differ? |
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> Dr Gavin Seddon |
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> School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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> University of Manchester |
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> Oxford Road, Manchester |
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> M13 9PL, U.K. |
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There's a reason that Itinium was called the Itanic.... It's probably |
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the biggest waste of effort Intel and HP have ever embarked on. Next to |
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no-one supports it, and it's special features arn't really all that |
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special compared to the average Opteron. If you want the most |
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robust/fastest chipset, Power chips are the way to go. (Not Power PC |
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(PPC), just Power chips). A workstation running dual Power5 chips would |
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more or less obliterate anything you could care to throw at it. |
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If you're strictly speaking of the x86 world of chips (Which btw the |
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Itanium isn't really more then >85% compatible) then the dual core |
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socket 940 opterons are still the best chip, followed by the dual core |
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socket 939 Athlon 64s. If you are running a rack or thirty of blades, |
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the difference between the IA64 and the AMD64 heat output and wattage |
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ingestion more then pays for itself. Performance wise, the Opterons are |
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also far enough ahead of the Intel offerings to make it worthwhile to |
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stick with AMD. |
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YMMV and My opinions are my own. |
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