[Gllug] AMD64

[Rich Walker]

John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> writes:

> Doug Winter wrote:
>>
>> It's noticeably faster than running in 32-bit, and basically knocks anything Intel can do into a
>> cocked hat.
>>
> Fighting talk.
> I'm just about to start working on some Intel EMT64 nodes.
>
> Opteron of course have Hypertransport - so anything memory intensive will perform very well on them.

You read the article in SysAdmin about I/O throughput on Opteron and
Intel motherboards? Very interesting...


<http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/0411b.htm>

cheers, Rich.

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