Finally, a Xeon MP with four cores and modern blueprint
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Bids adieu to aging NetBurst microarchitecture Intel has at last brought its high-end Xeon processor out of the stone age, replacing its geriatric micro architecture and doubling the number of cores to four.â¦
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Chipmaker plans to debut its Xeon 3000 processors at IDF this week; Core 2 Duo variants are for low-end servers.
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The Motley Fool - For all the fuss over quad-core chips, you'd think your own PC had them now. Of course, they don't, and they won't. Quad-core chips -- that is, four processors on one piece of silicon -- are aimed at servers.
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After Intel CEO Paul Otellini bragged that Intel&#39;s Xeon chip was the most energy-efficient processor, Neal Nelson compared it to AMD&#39;s offering and found that Intel wasn&#39;t being exactly truthful.Recent tests by Neal Nelson &amp; Associates, an independent computer performance consulting firm, have reported that in 36 of the 57 cases tested an AMD Opteron-based server delivered better power efficiency than a comparably configured Intel Xeon-based server.The tests were performed on servers configured with 2, 4, 6 and 8 gigabytes of main memory at various transaction processing load levels. The results show that for certain configurations and at certain load levels the Intel Xeon based server was 2.4 to 11.7 percent more power efficient while in other cases the AMD Opteron based server was 9.2 to 23.1 percent more power efficient. In addition, when the systems were idle and waiting for transactions to process, the AMD server was 30.4 to 53.1 percent more power efficient.Power consumption while the servers are idle is particularly significant since many servers spend most of their time waiting for work. A November 16, 2006 press release from IBM quotes a report by the Robert Frances Group which states that on average servers in data centers are idle 80 to 85 percent of the time.The test results also showed that:-- Larger memory configurations deliver both higher throughput and better power efficiency;-- Intel&#39;s power efficiency advantages decrease as memory size increases;-- AMD&#39;s power efficiency advantages increase as memory size increases;-- For CPU-intensive workloads, the Xeon delivers 8.0 to 14.0 percent higher peak throughput;-- For primarily I/O intensive workloads the Opteron delivers 11.3 to 19.4 percent higher peak throughputNeal Nelson conducted these tests in response to a statement made by Intel CEO Paul Otellini in a July 18, 2007 analyst conference call. During that call Mr Otellini referred to Intel&#39;s &quot;lead in power efficiency&quot;. Neal Nelson decided to use his company&#39;s benchmark toolset to determine if Intel actually had a lead in power efficiency.In a somewhat dry comment, Neal Nelson said: &quot;It appears that Mr. Otellini&#39;s statement is inconsistent with the test results.&quot;The tests were not financed or sponsored by any company or group.Techworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.&#160;
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A forthcoming version of Windows Server is designed for building supercomputers from clusters of PCs.
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Big Blue has committed to a fourth generation of high-end Xeon servers. It expects quad-core chips to lower the system's cost.
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Superfast servers with Intel's new quad-core Xeon 5300 processor coming in January.
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Review Just as ATI's X800 XT PE ships, along comes the next board
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It said it has demonstrated a working version of the technology based on its Opteron chip. By Darrell Dunn. The shift to dual-core microprocessors continues to accelerate.
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Company will manufacture a dual-core PowerPC processor.
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Massively parallel processor to 'change the world', apparently
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'Isaiah' to battle Athlon 64, EM64T-based P4 etc.
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Four-core coming AMD has grown tired of hearing about Intel's four-core Xeon wonders and so countered today with some faster Opterons and some lower-voltage ones. If you can't beat them with cores, beat them with variety.â¦
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New high-end dual-core Opterons will power servers.
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How about an embedded processor that&#39;s designed to deliver a quantum leap in performance and system bandwidth while keeping power in check?
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The Xeon 5355, which packages up two dual-core chips, is being shipped ahead of schedule.
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Blog: AMD announces its quad core server chips will ship in August