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To: Joe NYC who wrote (78403)4/25/2002 8:20:42 PM
From: wanna_bmwRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Joe, Re: "What kind of systems were these? Were they maxed out on memory, disk performance? Was the cost the same? Would it be possible to apply the cost difference between the systems to, say more memory on Xeon system? Is the performance increase sufficient to justify with a non-standard system? These are the questions potential customers will ask."

I am less qualified than the marketing people to answer these questions, but FWIW, the Itanium 2 system had double the memory - 32GB, as opposed to 16GB. I don't think that current Xeon systems can equip more than 16GB, so one advantage to the 64-bit Itanium 2 system is that you can.

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To: Joe NYC who wrote (78403)4/25/2002 10:54:28 PM
From: Dan3Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Re: McKinley seems to have killer bandwidth, which matters to database performance even more than CPU power

Opteron has 3 to 4 times the bandwidth of Itanium - it completly overwhelms it. The only serious competition out there for Opteron is IBM's Z900 mainframe.


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