[CentOS] Dual Opteron or Dual Xeon?

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 at 12:15pm, Feizhou wrote

> You will do better to get an Opteron based server. Opterons handle SSL 
> faster, in fact much faster, than Intel Xeon processors not to mention that 
> I/O on an Opteron box is better too. Stay away from Woodcrest Xeon servers. 
> The US Government and a large korean ISP have had stability problems with 
> Woodcrest servers.

Do you have any more details on said stability problems (e.g. hardware 
specs, etc)?  I've been very impressed with the Woodcrest Xeon tester I've 
got -- in fact, it bests my Opterons in almost every benchmark I throw at 
it, and it's been rock solid.  I'm leaning pretty hard in that direction 
for my next cluster upgrade.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University