Speaking from experience, I can tell you that the dual P2 boxes we have are about twice as fast in actual use as the quad PPro boxes we have. What a difference a year makes (in computing power)! Last year we paid nearly $19,000 for each quad PPro. This year, we're paying about $4,000 for each dual P2, and getting much more for the money. Sam Robert Russell wrote:
Ok, so can anyone give some pointers as to how to project the benefits of multiple processors?
I recently considered looking for some Pentium Pro 200 cpus(2), but it was suggested P II was a better way to go. I had some info that the P Pro was, perhaps, better and last year(I think) I read that IBM had shown a Linux box in a show in Germany sporting 4 PPROs. Wow! I guess it cooked!
I have a chance to purchase a Gigabte MB for dual P II and clock speed s to 333MHZ. I was originalllly planning on Tyan or Asus(recommended as very good makes, but a recent MB article included Gigabyte as a good choice. Sorry for the rambling....)
I tend to be conservative and speed is not all there is faster computing.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
TIA,
Bob Russell
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
I tested a distributed POVRay on four double PII/400 w/ 128M RAM - sweet.
Before I go to Beowulf and get lost on that site, can you tell which (kind of) applications that would benefit from a cluster? Will my mailreader run faster? :-)
No, unforunately not. The application has to be designed to be run in a distributed environment. Regular application do not benefit from a cluster. Heck, most applications don't even make proper use of a second CPU...
Bye, LenZ
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