[Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

[Martin A. Brooks]

Hi John,

On Sunday, June 6, 2004, John Winters wrote:

> I am therefore considering putting in a bid for a powerful multi-cpu
> workstation.  The obvious choice seems to be between a couple of
> hyperthreaded processors (giving almost 4 effective processors) or a

Hyperthreading gives very little actual performance boost considering
the price.

> couple of AMD 64 bit processors.

We sell a lot of opteron kit, you can get a dual opteron box for not
all that much money which'll kick the pants off a dual p4 doing
hyperhtreading.

Regards

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Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd.
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/

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