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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (140340)	7/28/2001 10:35:01 AM
From: Windsock	Respond to of 186894

Ten - Re:"Big deal, that's a floating-point benchmark suited more toward workstations than servers." Anyone that is seeking outstanding floating point performance will select an Itanium workstation. It has twice the performance of the fastest AthWiper. If they want a database server they will go with a Xeon server, 2 way of 4 way. The best practical use for the Athwiper MP systems is to feed Halucogens to Dan and Pea. The market is certainly not buying the AM MP.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (140340)	7/28/2001 10:08:04 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Tench: You said you wanted an example. You got one! As to whether they beat Athlon MP at serving just look at this database test of Anand's: anandtech.com . To benchmark apples to apples you use the same config for all comers (amount of memory, same disk, same video, etc.). Isn't that a typical server benchmark that a customer would run? Once the performance is better than some set limit, then a customer would look at other things, price being a major one. Another is that a larger base platform costs more for the software since, many of the software vendors charge annual licenses based on the type of computer that runs them. So a dual gets charged one number and a 4 way would get charged twice that amount. Definitely a negative for over specifying a server. Pete