[Wylug-discuss] Linux on Intel 64-Bit Xeon

[Mark P. Conmy]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Andy Davidson wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2005, at 15:40, Mark P. Conmy wrote:
>
>> Everyone I know who has played with both, however, have emphatically come 
>> down on AMDs side.
>
> Much of that may be because it's much cheaper to build an system around one 
> of AMD's processors !  Excellent value certainly.

No - the main comments come from some researchers who have bought two
small beowulfs one AMD, one EMT64 and have been comparing performance.

While important, the money is secondary to the performance to them.

Mark