AMD Opteron dual cores

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 a preview of AMD dual core opterons for servers
>>> http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hkepc.com%2Fhwdb%2Fdualcore-opteron-5.htm&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

  bottlenecked considering the testing rig is :
AMD Opteron 248 x 2
AMD Opteron 866 x 2
Tyan K8WE S2895
Kingston DDR 333 512MB x 2 (CL 2.5-3-3-7)
Inno3d Geforce 6600GT PCI-E x 2
Gigabyte 3d Rocket Cooler x 2
Maxtor DiamondMax 9 120GB 7200rpm 8MB
Delta ServerPower 460W
<< running on highish latency DDR333 ,  and on an older chipset not meant for SLI gaming....
  All benchmarks show a marked increase in performance , considering the Desktop chips will be running @ 2.4ghz , not 2.2 , we should see even bigger numbers from AMD benchmarks soon .

[W1nTry]

More Credibility to the Opteron platform:

Tyan claims server throughput record with Opteron

Petabits 'n' pieces

By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 05 May 2005, 20:42

MOBO-MAKER TYAN said it set new throughput performance records on a 2U chassis thanks to a chip named Opteron.

It said a series of tests conducted in April at the Neal Nelson & Associates benchmarking laboratory measured a sustained data rate of 6.5 gigabits per second from a single 2U form-factor server powered by AMD Opteron processors.

In one 48-hour test ran it managed to transfer 1,000 terabits (1 petabit) of user data between 96 FTP client machines and the single FTP server running Suse Linux Professional 9.2. The data rates were achieved with the common IPV4 protocol and standard 1,500 byte packets.

Neal Nelson, of Neal Nelson & Associates which conducted the test claimed: "Never before has a single 2U chassis run real application programs like FTP at sustained data rates that are this high."

He said the transfer of 1 petabit of data in 48 hours, "is truly a record-setting accomplishment."