Intel Lindenhurst Xeon DP Platform Discussion

Steve from Hexus writes "Hexus.net has a article looking at Intel's latest Xeon platform: Lindenhurst, discussing the Paxville dual-core processor, E7520 core-logic, where it could go right for Intel, and where it could all go wrong." From the article: "If you're I/O bound by your threads in any way, you can hit problems (all threads touch the MCH, then there's a 266MiB/sec bus link to the I/O processors to cross, then the data hits disks or network hardware). If you're memory subsystem bound in any way, especially on a majority of compute threads, performance is likely gone. There's just too much resource sharing for it to all conceivably work well, especially compared to Opteron. I can forsee many a scenario where dual-core Opteron will give Paxville Xeon DP a beating."

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Re:Men in Black?

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Good, so I'm *not* the only one who hates seeing that extra "i" in there just because some pedantic ass / Frenchman wants to make sure that we know that MB when used in terms of bits/bytes means 2^20 and not 10^6 - despite decades of everyone somehow getting by just fine before that stupid new term which reduces readabiilty and doesn't convey any new information. "Oh, but hard drives..." Shut up - hard drive capacity is less than advertised either way once there's a filesystem on there, so it doesn't make a difference. The advertised size is, at best, an estimation of what you'll get out of it.

There, I feel much better now. :)