Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-22 Thread michael
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:24 +0200, strawks wrote: > On jeu, 2005-07-21 at 21:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > It's almost the same, from what I've read. > > Here you can see the differences : > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13344 > http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmemory/0,39024

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-22 Thread strawks
On jeu, 2005-07-21 at 21:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > It's almost the same, from what I've read. Here you can see the differences : http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13344 http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmemory/0,39024015,39193811,00.htm -- strawks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signatu

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 22:57 +0200, strawks wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 21:38 +0100, michael wrote: > > Well, I've Xeons in my box which support hyperthreading (HT). I presume > > this is the same as "dual core". However, with a 2.4 debian SMP kernel I > > found that for my applications

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread strawks
Hi, On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 21:38 +0100, michael wrote: > Well, I've Xeons in my box which support hyperthreading (HT). I presume > this is the same as "dual core". However, with a 2.4 debian SMP kernel I > found that for my applications it was better to turn HT off. I've yet to > try with 2.6 kerne

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 04:13:27PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Thanks for the information. If you have experience of using dual core > processors with Debian, I'd be glad to hear of the details. I would be happy to try it out if someone bought me a machine with dual core cpu in it. :) All I hav

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 16:13 -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > One dual core opteron compared to two single core opterons: > > > Each opteron has a memory controller built in that does dual channel > > memory support. A dual core opteron still onl

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote: One dual core opteron compared to two single core opterons: Each opteron has a memory controller built in that does dual channel memory support. A dual core opteron still only has one memory controller and hypertransport to the chipset. The tw

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:36:55AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > 1) Dual core Opterons first came on the market in April. The sales rep > said that AMD Dual Core Opterons did not work with Fedora Core. Since they > only install Fedora and SuSE, they had no info about Debian. Any idea what > the s

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, Dual core support is not distro specific. It depends on the kernel used. I believe that debian, with a recent (2.6.12.3+) kernel should be fine. Do you have any personal experience in using this? I'm concerned about stability issues. Also, wo

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Dual core support is not distro specific. It depends on the kernel used. I believe that debian, with a recent (2.6.12.3+) kernel should be fine. Ed Tomlinson On Monday 18 July 2005 01:36, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Dear People, > > My bioinformatics research group at Duke is buying a server,