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To: dale_laroy who wrote (71851)	2/18/2002 1:31:43 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Spotted on the web... Over the years we’ve all read about how certain benchmarks have become the “defacto” standard by which most of us base our buying decisions. This year we decided to buy 2 similarly configured workstations (Dell dual Intel 2ghz vs A2Z dual AMD MP1800) and generate our own test/results. Depending on the outcome, we would re-evaluate our purchasing decisions for hardware procurement. The primary usage of these workstations will be statistical analysis, a very CPU intensive job. Before I disclose our unbiased results, I need to emphasize our objective was to find the fastest machine (ie: quickest completion times). We bought the Dell workstation first,assuming it would fair extremely well and the second workstation was custom-built by A2Z to my specifications. The dataset tested was a 3.5gig flat file. Dell Specs: Dual 2ghz Xeon processors, 1 gig RDRAM, (1) 40gig IDE 7200rpm drive for loading the OS and various software, (2) SCSI Ultra160 drives to hold the data: one SCSI drive for reading the data, the other for writing, to eliminate any I/O contention. Software: Windows2000 Professional, SAS v8.1 A2Z Specs: Dual MP1800 AMD processors, 1 gig DDR RAM, (1) 40gig IDE 7200rpm drive for loading the OS and various software, (2) WD 100gig 7200rpm IDE drives to hold the data: one IDE drive for reading the data, the other for writing, to eliminate any I/O contention. Software: Windows2000 Professional, SAS v8.1 Note: Even though the Dell system had a two SCSI drives advantage, the I/O channels were unobstructed on both system, therefore didn’t impact the result. We could prove this by monitoring the CPU time vs Real Time, both nearly identical. Results: Dell completion time = 2hr37minutes. A2Z completion time = 1hr42minutes. We ran these tests several times to validate our findings and every test reinforced our initial finding that the AMD system we had built was significantly faster than a comparably configured Dell/Intel system. Congratulation A2Z and AMD! Kevin Shea a2zcomp.com