
Re: RE: Re: RE: Oh bugger....
Hi Salesboy,
"256 cores in the Sun (sorry, I meant FSC) system, compared to 128 cores in the Superdome"
Er, perhaps thats because Itanium has only managed to get to a dual core model. Why the hell would Sun benchmark dual core Sparc64's when they are selling quad core Sparc64vii that can have 256 cores in a 64 socket frame. Itanium can only hold 128 cores in a 64 socket frame, your problem (or HP's it would seem). Sorry it beat your beloved.
If/when quad core Tukwilla comes out do you not wonder that the Sparc64 might be onto 8 cores, hell, 16core Rock CPU's could be out before then, there still scheduled. Quad core Itanic's, 16 core Rock, this could be a call to Hollywood for a new film :
"Itanic 2, sunk by Rock instead of Icebergs". I want the lead role!
Anyway, onwards : "Xeon can already scale to more than Niagara"
Come on Matt, show me the love, I'm begging!!! Lets do some link exchanging again shall we? OK, here goes mine again : http://blogs.sun.com/mrbenchmark/
Like before, yes, this is a slower frequency than the latest but look at the curves HP boy, 8 threads and BOOM!! Bye bye Itanium performance.
Isn't this what led you in the first place to state T2's were faster than Xeons?
Go on Matt, do it again, show me the love....