Path to understanding Cell continues...

by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/10/2005 2:34 PM EST
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  • nath - Monday, February 14, 2005 - link

    Anand, I would like to commend you on your blogs. They are one of the better ones you find on the net.
  • gbc02 - Saturday, February 12, 2005 - link

    Found some.

    http://h18002.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/1218...
  • gbc02 - Saturday, February 12, 2005 - link

    I want to hear more about the new HP XW9300 workstations.

    They seem pretty reasonable, cost/performance.
  • johnsonx - Friday, February 11, 2005 - link

    @#9:

    No, NUMA isn't applicable to A64's at all. But it's very applicable to Opteron's, whether they be single or dual core. It will become even more applicable once the 64-bit version of Windows ships; since 64-bit XP is based on the 2003 server core, presumably that means a dual-opteron workstation running 64-bit XP will be able to take advantage of NUMA (unless Microsoft decides, in their infinite wisdom, to disable NUMA and various other bits in the kernel used for XP 64-bit).
    The question of course is: what kinds of applications can benefit from NUMA? I'm guessing that for most general purpose servers and workstations, NUMA will neither help nor hinder much at all. But there will be some things that NUMA will help with... Anandtech can tell us those...
  • Rand - Friday, February 11, 2005 - link

    Not that I'm complaining but isn't this a bit of an odd timing to be writing about AMD's NUMA architecture.
    I'd have expected such an article when the Opteron first launched..., and it's not really a[pplicable to AMD's dual core A64's.

    In any case I'm particulaly looking forward to Johan's next article.
  • Andy - Friday, February 11, 2005 - link

    NUMA NUMA AI! NUMA NUMA NUMA AI!
  • johnsonx - Thursday, February 10, 2005 - link

    Looking forward to the NUMA article. I've installed several dual-opteron Win2k3 servers (the sort with proper server boards that have 8 RAM slots), and have been unable to determine whether NUMA or node-interleaving yields better performance. I don't have time for benchmarking myself, but that's why I read Anandtech...

  • Eric Everman - Thursday, February 10, 2005 - link

    Speaking of LCDs, I've *never* seen a review of Apple's cinema displays that gives a way to compare them to non-Apple displays. Apple charges a premium for their displays, are they worth it when Dell is making some LCDs with great spec's?
  • Peter Kovacs - Thursday, February 10, 2005 - link

    Hi Anand,

    I got a Powerbook of the old generation and I may be swapping it for cheap to the new one. I'm considering an external LCD monitor. It may be nice to have a high-end LCD round-up in the 20 + inch range. Including the Viewsonics but also maybe the Apple ones. Also do you forsee new 20+ LCD comming out for reasonable prices?

    Ciao
    Peter
  • erik - Thursday, February 10, 2005 - link

    Anand, don't work yourself to death. Take it easy. Don't work on weekends for example. It's the wise path in the long run.
  • Lauren Buchholz - Thursday, February 10, 2005 - link

    The new powerbooks finally come with 512MB standard...
  • orsin - Thursday, February 10, 2005 - link

    I would like to see some AMD SFF in that round up. It seems most sites only use P4 SFF. Also alike look into when NF4 SFF will show up would be nice.
  • Rura - Thursday, February 10, 2005 - link

    Hey Anand, out of curiosity do you have any numbers for the mac articles vs standard articles on this site? I know you said the original month with a mac article was huge and I was wondering if that trend has continued.

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