On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:50, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
>
> >
> > Is this true? Did they really double the size of the memory bus, or is
> > it a case of 4 CPUs fighting for the same memory bandwidth that 2 had
> > before?
> >
> Opertons have built in memory controllers so they scale better than
> intel chips. See http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1982
I didn't realise that. Thanks for the pointer. We're going to be buying
some more servers soon, I should look at Opterons I guess...
Stephen