Very likely a hopeless question, with this little information, but just in case:
Does anyone have any 'real world' experience with 'both' of these CPUs, in terms of relative performance for 'whatever work you do' ? I realize the xeon is a faster mhz part (3.16ghz xeon vs 2.3ghz opteron) so I'm more concerned with "relative performance per mhz" I'm involved with a cluster project, and we have 2 options from our vendor, - 25 compute nodes, dual-quadcore intel 5460, or - 32 compute nodes, dual-quadcore amd 2356 >From what I've been able to glean (Spec.org / SpecCPU 2006), - the intel chips have better integer performance - the amd chips have better FPU performance so the likely anticipated real-world performance result .. will depend on how a given application blends / balances things. Any comments / thoughts are certainly appreciated. --Tim Chipman _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
