64bit CPUs

[Jim C. Nasby]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:22:03AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> writes:
> 
> Mike> Thanks!  I was worried I was missing something obvious in all
> Mike> the 64bit excitement.  For my apps where I cant balance across
> Mike> multiple machines or where space is an issue, dual core CPUs I
> Mike> think might be more interesting to look at in a few months.
> 
> Hi Mike!
> 
> Anyways, we've been finding that raw packet passing is significantly
> better on some of the newer tyan opteron boards.  But then that may
> have as much to do with them shipping with multiple independant PCI-X
> slots than the opterons themselves.  Memory bandwidth probably doesn't
> hurt, either.

I was just going to mention that what's more important than gobs of
memory is memory bandwidth, which the Opterons have much more of than
other CPUs. So any application that needs to move a lot of data, whether
a database or a router, will benefit.
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