> Sounds like Intel has something to hide. Often companies like Intel have an embargo date solely to make sure that all the great new performance news arrives at once, generating a lot of press alongside the formal announcement of availability.
I also had one case years ago where I was doing a big benchmark for a bid on a new processor. We had pre-release parts. The release parts were 10% slower, across the board on all of our benchmarks. Memory intensive, cache intensive, fp intensive, int intensive, it was all slower by about the same amount. That was a real head-scratcher, since the cpu clock was the same. AMD sends out pre-release Opterons to partners, often times running at pretty low clock rates. It's very useful for compiler testing, and can provide more opportunity to find chip bugs. Needless to say, no benchmarks from these really slow parts can be published. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
