In my *utter* lack of enthusiasm over this option, I was gathering ammunition for better hardware. I went to spec.org for speed comparisons, and sun.com for price comparisons. Sun's *entry* level servers are more powerful when running AMD CPUs.
Just in case people still hold a bias against CISC processors capable of running x86 code as necessarily inferior to more expensive 64-bit RISC processors, in spite of the overwhelmingly obvious specint results to the contrary, I'd like to offer up this little baby:
http://www.cray.com/products/xt3/index.html
Something everyone should have in their office...
Mike Mascari
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