[K12OSN] K12osn - OT 4-way Opteron or 2-way 4 core Xeon server?

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

Petre, Calvin and Robert have spoken and they made sense. The memory
handling is very, very important, $20,000 is somewhat important too :-)
4 way Opteron it is.
Thanks. juliusB

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Robert Arkiletian wrote:

> On 1/16/07, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
> > I think you'd get more 'oomph' from the 4-way Opteron box than you would with a 2-way
> > dual-core Xeon box.  Opterons have generally had better performance than Xeons, which is
>
> Agreed. The 4 way Opteron has 4 memory controllers. Even the quad core
> dual Xeon (8 cores) still only hase 1 memory controller.
>