Sure, the benchmarks are impressive, but it would be nice to see more benchmarks using 64-bit-optimized software (eg. an optimized gromacs). 32 bit software just doesn't use all the power these chips have.
... but I wouldn't trust their search engine even if I compared it to other search engines and saw its results were reasonable. The ranking algorithm of a search engine is always a heuristic of some kind, where even changing one of many coefficients by 1% can change the search results for some particular topic, so it's close to impossible to tell if the results returned for some particular search are biased because the authors wanted it this way, or if it's just an accident. There is actually no control over the different search engines (of course the ranking algorithm is a secret), and with people having objections to google (google-watch), I fear to even think what could be lurking inside a search engine owned (not 0wn3d) by m$.
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Sure, the benchmarks are impressive, but it would be nice to see more benchmarks using 64-bit-optimized software (eg. an optimized gromacs). 32 bit software just doesn't use all the power these chips have.
... but I wouldn't trust their search engine even if I compared it to other search engines and saw its results were reasonable. The ranking algorithm of a search engine is always a heuristic of some kind, where even changing one of many coefficients by 1% can change the search results for some particular topic, so it's close to impossible to tell if the results returned for some particular search are biased because the authors wanted it this way, or if it's just an accident. There is actually no control over the different search engines (of course the ranking algorithm is a secret), and with people having objections to google (google-watch), I fear to even think what could be lurking inside a search engine owned (not 0wn3d) by m$.
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