[Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

[Huw Lynes]

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:27:12 +0100
John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:

> The front runner at the moment is Tablix, which has good support for
> running on a whole LAN-full of machines. 
> 
> 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) 

hyper-threading has always sucked badly when we've bench-marked it. We turn it
off by default on all our Xeon boxes. If tablix has been compiled with icc you
might see a different story though. 

> or a
> couple of AMD 64 bit processors.  

Opterons are nice. Pound for pound they are faster than Xeon's.

If it's designed to run on a LAN full of machines it might be cheaper to buy 3
or 4 uniprocessor P4 boxes and run it across those.

On the other hand I would be tempted to use this as the perfect excuse to buy
a dual-opteron box.

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