| Subject: Re: AMD FX-53 or Pentium 4 3.4 extreme |
| From: "Benjamin Gawert" <bgawert@gmx.de> |
| Date: 05/05/2004, 21:23 |
Tomislav Vuk wrote:
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.
Cheaper? Maybe (but then You can get a HP rx2600 Dual Itanium2 Server f�r
1999EUR, so a comparable Dual Opteron isn't really cheaper). Faster? Not
that I know (Itanium2 1.5GHz takes ~55min/WU)...
Benjamin