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To: Joe NYC who wrote (98325)	7/23/2003 2:51:20 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Why no 8-way Xeon servers? Well, if you look at the SPEC benchmarks (not just int_rate and fp_rate, but also server benchmarks), Xeon just doesn't scale near as well as Opteron. Not enough memory bandwidth to satisfy 4 Xeons, let alone 8. increasingly, though, computing companies are emphasizing an alternative called "scaling out," spreading work across a large number of vastly less-expensive low-end servers. Very encouraging for Opteron! Eliminates one of the few advantages that Itanium has over Opteron, high end scalability. Petz