Subject: Re: AMD FX-53 or Pentium 4 3.4 extreme
From: "Benjamin Gawert" <bgawert@gmx.de>
Date: 05/05/2004, 21:23
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

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