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Florian Philipp schrieb: |
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> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote: |
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>> I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating |
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>> AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much |
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>> faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys |
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>> think? |
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>> - Grant |
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> I work at the German Aerospace Center (basically the German NASA). We've |
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> been using AMD CPUs for a long time on our clusters and workstations |
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> because they were not only cheaper but also faster on floating point |
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> operations whereas Intel was faster on integer operations. Now we are |
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> switching to Intel because AMD lost this advantage and has problems |
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> delivering the ordered number of CPUs. |
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> I personally stick with AMD because they have a factory in Germany and I |
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> don't want Intel to rule the market as they've done before AMD came up |
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> with the Athlon XP. |
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I can confirm that. The German Weather Service uses AMD CPU's on the |
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servers for visualising weathercharts due to better FPU performance. |
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The new bunch of servers however are intel systems. |
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Norman |
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