Indeed. Both Alpha and IA64 were traditionally above 100W in power usage. Don't know about Athlon64 but I'm sure AMD has a white paper on it... can you imagine that kind of heat getting transferred to your lap by a heatpipe?
They have (had) a couple of nice products... Convolo in particular... and they were great FS / OS evangelizers... first DEC, then Compaq, now MCLX? What's going to move into Lowell now? HP?
Well, KLAT2 isn't using channel-bonding and they are talking about bisectional b/w not local... so it's not a very adaptable comparison. He also has custom (Realtek) drivers for his NICs.
Most of what Cringely said may have been true a year or so ago but it isn't now. For instance, if he is using Athlon XPs, why would he move FP code to 3DNow! instead of SSE? And there are a host of competing cheap interconnects now, especially if you can avoid TCP/IP. But if you can't, there's always IP-over-FireWire... M$ has had that running at 400Mbps for years. I don't think you can get into UWB for $6000. See the Linux Clustering Info Center and Extreme-Linux.com.
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Indeed. Both Alpha and IA64 were traditionally above 100W in power usage. Don't know about Athlon64 but I'm sure AMD has a white paper on it... can you imagine that kind of heat getting transferred to your lap by a heatpipe?
They have (had) a couple of nice products... Convolo in particular... and they were great FS / OS evangelizers... first DEC, then Compaq, now MCLX? What's going to move into Lowell now? HP?
Well, KLAT2 isn't using channel-bonding and they are talking about bisectional b/w not local... so it's not a very adaptable comparison. He also has custom (Realtek) drivers for his NICs.
Most of what Cringely said may have been true a year or so ago but it isn't now. For instance, if he is using Athlon XPs, why would he move FP code to 3DNow! instead of SSE? And there are a host of competing cheap interconnects now, especially if you can avoid TCP/IP. But if you can't, there's always IP-over-FireWire... M$ has had that running at 400Mbps for years. I don't think you can get into UWB for $6000. See the Linux Clustering Info Center and Extreme-Linux.com.