Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-15 Thread Terje Kvernes
Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > A small thing ti consider also, the fastest production opteron is > "only" a 1.8gig chip. Wait till the xeon stompers come out this > fall... clock frequency doesn't equal the ability to crunch numbers. on a RISC, this would be a fair as

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:50:00 +0200 Terje Kvernes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:22:06PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > > > ordered a dual 1.8Ghz Opteron to do numbercrunching. we've also > > > bought a dual 3.06Ghz P4 X

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-14 Thread Terje Kvernes
Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:22:06PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > ordered a dual 1.8Ghz Opteron to do numbercrunching. we've also > > bought a dual 3.06Ghz P4 Xeon with HyperThreading to compare it > > with, but there is very little doubt that the O

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-14 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:22:06PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote: > ordered a dual 1.8Ghz Opteron to do numbercrunching. we've also > bought a dual 3.06Ghz P4 Xeon with HyperThreading to compare it > with, but there is very little doubt that the Opteron will come out > first. I wouldn't make

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-14 Thread Terje Kvernes
Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Dan, can you do me a favor? Next time you boot the opteron, make a > note what the bogomip number is and let us know... I'm curious what > it reports. bogomips aren't worth anything in real life. they tend to reflect the clock frequency

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-14 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Daniel Robbins wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:47:15PM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Absolutely fantastic. Dan, can you do me a favor? Next time you boot the opteron, make a note what the bogomip number is and let us know... I'm curious what it reports. Thanks and I can't wait to jump into the ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Norberto BENSA
Robin H.Johnson wrote: > Total of 4 processors activated (21272.97 BogoMIPS). :-P~~ My poor P31G Detected 1000.175 MHz processor. Calibrating delay loop... 1990.65 BogoMIPS :'-( -- $ man womem No manual entry for womem pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Robin H . Johnson
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:41:42PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote: > > Dan, can you do me a favor? Next time you boot the opteron, make a note what > > the bogomip number is and let us know... I'm curious what it reports. > Calibrating delay loop... 2778.72 BogoMIPS > Calibrating delay loop... 2785.28

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:47:15PM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > Absolutely fantastic. > > Dan, can you do me a favor? Next time you boot the opteron, make a note what > the bogomip number is and let us know... I'm curious what it reports. > > Thanks and I can't wait to jump into the next generat

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Robin H . Johnson
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:47:15PM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > Dan, can you do me a favor? Next time you boot the opteron, make a note what > the bogomip number is and let us know... I'm curious what it reports. The numbers aren't as high as you would expect. I have some from my CFLAGS/cpuinfo co

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Jerry McBride
Absolutely fantastic. Dan, can you do me a favor? Next time you boot the opteron, make a note what the bogomip number is and let us know... I'm curious what it reports. Thanks and I can't wait to jump into the next generation AMD... On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:12:19 -0600 Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 06:53:21PM -0400, Jason Giangrande wrote: > According to this there are plans for a 64-bit version of Gentoo. > > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030512-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect3 > > I haven't heard too much about it lately, though. Opteron support is going well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Jerry McBride
Yeah, nice announcement. I emailed both hardware vendors mentioned in the message as to the status of the project. I hope it's actually going to take off. On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:53:21 -0400 Jason Giangrande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > en -- *

Re: [gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Jason Giangrande
According to this there are plans for a 64-bit version of Gentoo. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030512-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect3 I haven't heard too much about it lately, though. Regards, Jason Giangrande On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 14:53, Jerry McBride wrote: > It looks as though there's

[gentoo-user] Opteron anyone?

2003-07-13 Thread Jerry McBride
It looks as though there's an operton in my future... maybe your too and this had caused me to ask... Is there an GENTOO 64bit effort going on, being talked about or planed? I'd most welcome the effort as Gentoo has been great and I can only imagine what it must/will be like on a hammer. TIA, Je