Doug, don't bother. Mas is delusional. I'm done with the HPC nonsense, anyway. If AMD has an advantage here, so be it. It's a small percentage of the market, and Intel will continue to drive some wins due to clocking much higher than AMD, and offering 1600 MT/s FSB parts next quarter, along with Harpertown and Stoakley.
I'm more interested in server apps, actually. That is where Barcelona will live or die. So far, SPECint_rate looks terrible on Barcelona, and I'd like to see how closely that extends to TPC-C, SAP, SPECjbb, SPECweb, and others. If Clovertown continues to perform better, especially with the 2.33GHz lower TDP parts, then it's game over for Barcelona as far as I'm concerned. |
