[SunHELP] Question on U2

[Fletcher, Joe]

Depends what you are going to do with it. If you have an app that's
multithreaded or uses parallel processing like say high performance //l
Fortran then the dual processors are a benefit. Likewise if you have two
apps that can be allocated essentially on one chip each then thats a win. If
say you run one app that does lots of floating point work and lots of I/O
but isn't multithreaded then 2 CPUs might help as one can do the crunching
while the other handles the system stuff. You mileage WILL vary.
What's the app you are planning to run?




-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Chong [mailto:oeyvind at mac.com]
Sent: 10 July 2001 16:08
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Question on U2


Hi guys,

Just want to pick on your brain on some performance related question on 
the Ultra 2.

A. Ultra 2, 1 x 300/2MB UltraSPARC II, Creator 3D
B. Ultra 2, 2 x 250/1MB UltraSPARC II, Creator 3D

Which config will be faster and better? Same amount of RAM: 512MB.

Thanks,

Tim
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