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Intel Hyperthreading In Reality

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-go-faster dept.

A reader writes: "Looks like GamePC has got the first look at Intel's new Xeon processor, which has the new super-fantastico Hyperthreading technology, which tricks your OS into thinking one CPU is two CPUs, two CPUs is four. Looks neat in theory, benchies included."

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  1. These machines are wonderful by Xanthos28 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Last friday I got my first taste of the Xeon processor. I work for a company that makes heavily optimizing OpenMP compilers, and we tend to get some of the latest hardware in short order. Last friday, I set up a machine with:

    Dual Xeon 2.0Ghz CPUs (3997 bogomips on RH7.2)
    1Ghz ram
    36Gb disk

    This machine is extremely fast. A test suite that runs in 4 hours on a dual PIII 800MHz (512MbRam) runs in about 45 minutes on this machine.