On Monday 12 September 2005 21:40, Denis wrote: > With my need for parallel execution of several single-thread Monte > Carlo and Finite Element tasks, what would be the pros and cons in > considering the Xeons and Opterons?
Opterons everytime. Under certain circumstances HT can make the CPU *slower*, and at best only adds around a 20% performance boost. A dual core CPU *is* two CPUs, with single digit % performance drop over 2 full CPUs. > What would be some issues and software limitations for me in trying to > get the AMD Opterons running on Gentoo? And would I use an x86 > platform or an AMD64 platform? Issues? Almost exactly nil. AMD64 support is excellent, if a little smaller and perhaps the tiniest bit behind, the x86 profile. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
