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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (140387)7/30/2001 11:25:09 AM
From: pgerassi  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Dear Tench:

There is a case of where a dishwashing detergent helps remove stains for washing clothes (My mother recommends Dawn Dishwashing Detergent for stain removal). Similarly, it is one of Athlon's strengths to be very good at a wide range of tasks. It is a mark of a well rounded processor. P3 Xeon is no longer a computation powerhouse. P4 Xeon is definitely not a well rounded processor. It displays schizoid tendencies, on some tasks is does quite well, on others extremely poorly.

Quad P3 Xeon is not a very powerful at computation, yet so many others seem to think it is. Database serving does not require great amounts of computation but, do require lots of disk both in speed and in quantity. It also requires lots of I/O. Due to much time to maximize the platform's traits in this area, it is currently quite good at this. There are signs that Athlon is better at it but, acceptance will take time.

It is interesting that both Mary and Tony think that most systems are built for computational loads and not database loads. Database loads are much more typical for servers. But, they keep pushing the computational configurations. Well, Athlon has proven itself on computational loads and is beginning on database loads at the small and medium levels. High end database loads will come in time.

Another curious fact is that 4 ways composed of two pairs of Xeons on two separate busses are much faster than four Xeons on a single bus. It shows both in database loads and web serving loads. This shows that the bus concept does not work well going from 2 to 4. Athlon gets more from adding a second CPU than Xeon does when running on a single bus. It appears that AMD and DEC were justified in their belief that P2P links were better than busses to connect CPUs to chipsets.

Pete
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