[geeks] sigh.

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Thu Apr 18 10:33:06 CDT 2002


On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:29:46AM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> It's got bigger latencies than the 420R/450/250/220R.  But that's because
> it's designed for MANY more processors.  If you are only doing 4 or less
> processors, you are better off with the smaller server and it WILL run
> circles around the bigger machine.  It's when you go to more than 4
> processors that the x500 series starts to come into its own.

RAW BALL-CRUSHING NUMBER CRUNCHING POWAH.

Ours is an 8x8 (8 CPUs, 8G RAM).

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX



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