Opteron ideally suited for multiprocessing

GP2 · 2003-09-07, 19:12

Anandtech has some good articles about Opteron architecture.

The main thing is the 64-bit stuff, the extra registers, and so forth. But there's something else too: it's designed to allow easy implementation of multi-processing.

Read this:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1815&p=7

Now fast-forward a few years from now and picture an 8-CPU box sitting on your desk, crunching away.

Dresdenboy · 2003-09-08, 07:01

That's very useful if multiple instances of mprime or other clients are working in parallel - especially if they have local memory banks.

Here at university we let mprime run on a small Xeon cluster (2x 2 CPU nodes - 2GHz Xeon DP) and it was slow compared to a single P4.

Uncwilly · 2004-01-14, 07:30

Interesting story:

IBM Sells Computer Using AMD Chip to Bristol-Myers

2003-09-07, 19:12	#1
GP2 Sep 2003 2·5·7·37 Posts	Opteron ideally suited for multiprocessing Anandtech has some good articles about Opteron architecture. The main thing is the 64-bit stuff, the extra registers, and so forth. But there's something else too: it's designed to allow easy implementation of multi-processing. Read this: http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1815&p=7 Now fast-forward a few years from now and picture an 8-CPU box sitting on your desk, crunching away.

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2003-09-08, 07:01	#2
Dresdenboy Apr 2003 Berlin, Germany 101101001₂ Posts	That's very useful if multiple instances of mprime or other clients are working in parallel - especially if they have local memory banks. Here at university we let mprime run on a small Xeon cluster (2x 2 CPU nodes - 2GHz Xeon DP) and it was slow compared to a single P4.

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Uncwilly 6809 > 6502 """"""""""""""""""" Aug 2003 101×103 Posts 2²×2,767 Posts	Interesting story: IBM Sells Computer Using AMD Chip to Bristol-Myers