On Sun, 2 May 2004 16:05:27 +0200, Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote:

franco wrote:

Which do you desire in your darkest dreams
of seti-crunching,
both are blazing fast.

Neither one. For a blazing fast SETI cruncher I'd take two 1.5GHz Itanium2
CPUs:

http://www.hp.com/workstations/itanium/zx6000/

The 1.5GHz machine should do ~45-50 WUs/day.

Dual Opterons are cheaper and faster.


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