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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 217.54+1.5%Nov 28 12:59 PM EST
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To: dougSF30 who wrote (196973)5/15/2006 10:49:37 PM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Doug,

if they're simply using clusters of 2-Socket systems, new Woodcrest machines should have higher performance than Opteron.

Woodcrest will likely lead in some apps and trail in others, once memory accesses (cache misses) predominate. If the Opteron memory controller has 2 independent channels, 4 of them in 2 socket system, it may benefit some of the workloads. Overall, Woodcrest is more likely to lead, if it launches at 3 GHz and and Opteron is below 3 GHz.

Being limited to 2 sockets - or switching to a different ISA if the customer needs more - is not exactly great sales proposition, but beggars can't be chosers.

I wonder though how much money SGI is planning on making on the lowest end, commodity end of the HPC spectrum, and what SGI think its advantage will be vs. HP or Dell.

Joe
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