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That's valuable info. These dual core amd's are on ebay for |
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'next-to-nothing', pls tell me more, what are the PPC machines, I have |
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seen PPC to be an option for a Gentoo dist. but didn't know what it is. |
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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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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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