[CentOS] SuperMicro X7DBE with CentOS4?
Jason Bradley Nance
aitrus at tresgeek.net
Tue Jun 20 21:44:33 UTC 2006
> Is there any reason you're locked into Xeon/FB-DIMM? SuperMicro makes
> many rather nice Opteron boards, with good ol' DDR SDRAM. And there
> aren't many areas where Xeon outperforms Opteron these days, if any.
This is especially true in multi-processor setups. Intel uses an SMP
setup with a single I/O controller for the memory which means that only
1 processor can be accessing memory at a time. AMD uses a NUMA
architecture with a dedicated I/O controller for each processor.
j
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