On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Robert Milkowski wrote:
> What do you think will be better (computing) PIII Xeon 550MHz or 733
> (800?) PIII?
For my specific application, problem size is huge (few hundred Mb to few Gb,
which must be stored entirely in ram) and runtimes are very long (days to weeks)
so cache size is relatively insignificant compared to plain old speed. Your
application may be different, and if it involves a lot of small (<500 Kb)
pieces the Xeon may be more attractive. For what I'm doing the PIII vs. Xeon
argument doesn't hold up well because if one was going to spend as much per
processor as Xeons costs it'd be much better to start a rack of new Alphas; see
http://www.digital.com/alphaserver/sc/index.html
There's a couple of pretty big Alpha clusters running Linux here; the Avalon's
got the most press.
http://cnls-www.lanl.gov:80/Internal/Computing/Avalon/news.html
>
> Does Linux make any additional use of PIII Xeon (specific instructions)?
I can't provide an informed response to this question; someone else probably
can?
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