Hi, Ruhollah Moussavi Baygi wrote: > As you may be aware of, Intel has reduced the price of its Quad CPUs, > dramatically. > > Does anyone have any experience using Intel Quad-Core CPUs in a Beowulf > Cluster?
Not yet, only with single nodes so far, but more to come :) > > Do you prefer these ones over AMD Opteron? > Right now, they seem to be far superior in most applications. > Essentially, are Intel Quad CPUs having really FOUR cores? Are they > really 64-bit processors, as Opterons are? Yes, Yes. Four cores where each two are sharing a common 4 MB cache. There might be some problems with the memory interface, but that depends on your application. For our codes the scaling is not perfect but close to 3.2 out of 4, i.e. 4 cores work as 3.2 single cores. But that's not too bad - especially after the recent price cut. Carsten _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
