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Re: Benefits of Linux/Alpha over Linux/x86?

Subject: Re: Benefits of Linux/Alpha over Linux/x86?
From: Iwao MAKINO (makino@hpc.co.jp)
Date: Thu Jun 22 23:12:52 2000


> Iwao MAKINO wrote:
>>
>>
>> If you use dual CPU, you MUST fill 8 memory slot to get FULL performance.
>> 667/4 is pretty good... 750/8 is even better
>>
>
> Do the math. If you have 4 SDRAM DIMM's, each 8 bytes wide,
> that's a 32 byte wide data stream, also called 256bits. And,
> clocked at 83.33MHZ, you get 2.6GB/sec, on a single bank. That
> is what the board is spec'd at. The UP2K uses the same memory
> architecture as an XP1000, near as I can tell. One can order
> memory for an XP1000 and it runs perfectly fine in a UP2K.
>
> Going to 8 DIMM's won't get you any more performance.
>
> (I run both UP2K's and XP1000's)
You can use same DIMM for XP-1000 and UP2K, but when we run sets of
benchmarks, it turned out that 4pcs w/ dual CPU did not make quite as much
performance as 8pcs DIMMS.

regards,

--
Iwao Makino                               Alpha OEM MFG.
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