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]]> By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2010/03/31/amds-performance-comparisons-for-the-new-opteron-6100/#comment-218174 John West Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:26:48 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=10746#comment-218174 We are in the process of looking at the merits and demerits of building large clusters out of all of the new crop of chips, so it is of interest to the day job to know how Beckton performs absolute value. Not everyone builds on price/performance...there are some applications where performance is important enough that a small price delta against Beckton may be worth it if the performance is good enough. We are in the process of looking at the merits and demerits of building large clusters out of all of the new crop of chips, so it is of interest to the day job to know how Beckton performs absolute value. Not everyone builds on price/performance…there are some applications where performance is important enough that a small price delta against Beckton may be worth it if the performance is good enough.

]]> By: Mark Hahn http://insidehpc.com/2010/03/31/amds-performance-comparisons-for-the-new-opteron-6100/#comment-218149 Mark Hahn Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:36:28 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=10746#comment-218149 Beckton vs M-C? the impression I have is that Beckton is very much aimed at the mainframe market (defacto replacement of Itanium) - lots of RAS and other expensive features. giant chip on a conservative fab process, etc. is there some reason to compare Beckton with M-C? Beckton vs M-C? the impression I have is that Beckton is very much aimed at the mainframe market (defacto replacement of Itanium) – lots of RAS and other expensive features. giant chip on a conservative fab process, etc. is there some reason to compare Beckton with M-C?

]]> By: Brian http://insidehpc.com/2010/03/31/amds-performance-comparisons-for-the-new-opteron-6100/#comment-217093 Brian Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:25:15 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=10746#comment-217093 Hi John, FYI, the SPEC.org website now has some results, too - and I expect we'll see Nehalem-EX / Beckton scores on their shortly. IBM listed some SPECfp_rate scores for its x5 systems using the Nehalem-EX CPUs, but they don't yet have the full breakdown by benchmark - it's been submitted, but not yet approved by SPEC. I expect we'll see it within the next few days. For example: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q1/cpu2006-20100315-10005.html I personally find these detailed results much more interesting, since I can look at MILC, WRF, etc., and see how those particular benchmarks differ, and ignore ones that I'm less interested in. Cheers, - Brian Hi John,

FYI, the SPEC.org website now has some results, too – and I expect we’ll see Nehalem-EX / Beckton scores on their shortly. IBM listed some SPECfp_rate scores for its x5 systems using the Nehalem-EX CPUs, but they don’t yet have the full breakdown by benchmark – it’s been submitted, but not yet approved by SPEC. I expect we’ll see it within the next few days.

For example:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q1/cpu2006-20100315-10005.html

I personally find these detailed results much more interesting, since I can look at MILC, WRF, etc., and see how those particular benchmarks differ, and ignore ones that I’m less interested in.

Cheers,
– Brian

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