RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] VR3

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

A) I said "might" not "will"
B) you offer no evidence to support yours either
C) Figuring out that two processors are better than one is simple logic, for
proving it, do a simple web search:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/server/ - How it works on a mac
http://physics.indiana.edu/~sg/CSE2001/singlenode.html - some benchmarking
results involving both single and dual
http://www.peecee.be/article.php?sid=220 - people actually using these
things who reccommend them
http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.html - a few more benchmarks, including a
comparison of a dual athlon 1.4 and a single athlon 1.4 which showed the
dual configuration to be 70% faster than the single

I've not found a benchmark between two 1ghz durons and a single 1400 XP
Athlon, but the numbers here indicate that the dual might be somewhere in
the ballpark of 20-30% faster than the single 1400XP.  Of course, if done
right, but that goes with anything...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kmicic [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:46 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] VR3
> 
> 
> "Ross, Matt" wrote:
> 
> > If you're just running the applications, then you should be 
> fine with the
> > athlon, though you might find the dual a bit faster on your 
> java apps.
> 
> Do you have any evidence to support this? Thread synchronization is a
> bitch. Unless you're running truly distributed apps exclusively (a'la
> EMAIL:PROTECTED or password cracker) there's no benefit to dual processors,
> although you may actually take performance penalty for poorly written
> apps /OS threading algorithm. My vote is for the 1.4 gig Athlon
> (although I'm not enthusiastic about AMD products altogether).
> 
> Paul
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