On 04/01/2010 11:21 AM, Bill Broadley wrote:
On 04/01/2010 05:34 AM, Jerker Nyberg wrote:
I just ordered two desktop systems with Intel i7-860 2.8 GHz QC and 16
GB RAM for evaluation, to run as computation nodes for our CPU-bound
batchlike application. I'll figure out the performance/price later but
it seems to be significantly better than Xeons from the same vendor. It
feels like 15 years ago all over again.
At least the premium is smaller these days. i7-860 has a market price of
around $280. The equiv xeon is 2.66 GHz and costs $270 and supports ECC.
So the "premium" now may be the difference between a simple tower case
and PS and a nice high density rack configuration.
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NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702
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Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com
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