From "Re: [suse-amd64] Giving up on 64-bit Linux for now" Thread...
Currently, dual opteron 246 (2 Ghz) with 8 Gbyte memory is the fastest performer running our application, compared with Apple dual G5 (2Ghz) and dual Xeon (2.8 Ghz) by a wide margin.
Speaking of which... Does anyone else have any decent comparisons of more real-world apps (not just synthetic benchmarks) between differing 64bit archs, especially opteron vs Intel? I tossed together a quick set of tests using 'openssl speed rsa' between IA64 and opteron (older 2.4 kernel systems) then amd64 vs em64t on some SLES9 installs (http://www.miguelito.org/openssl) and it looks like amd has a nice lead right now. Would love to see more application comparisons though. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com [It's Halloween Kitty gives out raisins] Kids: "Ewwwww..." Kitty: "No, raisins are good for you. Raisins are nature's candy." [As soon as she closes the sliding glass door eggs hit it] Red: "..and eggs are nature's hand grenade. Kitty, don't give them raisins.. it just pisses them off."