Dell to start selling AMD Opteron Servers

[David Hubbard]

From: Eberhard Moenkeberg
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Adam Williams wrote:
> 
> > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060518/20060518005798.html?.v=1
> 
> Wait - it is a statement from AMD, and it states "Dell 
> intends...", not more currently.
> 
> So maybe we should fire 'em (Dell): DOIT, DOIT, DOIT!

True, for all we know Dell could have put that in their
quarterly report just to press Intel for some lower pricing. :-(

> I prefer Newisys 4300-E currently against PE6850.
> It has 4 "true" Dualcore CPUs and a 50% better memory 
> throughput, and it needs less power (produces less heat).
> Oh boy, I really am dreaming of a Dell machine like that!

Yep, I'm saving nearly an amp of 110v and gaining 35%
in performance with dual 2.8 GHz single-core Opterons
vs dual 3.8 GHz Xeon's.  A 6850 with four 2.6 GHz dual-core
Opterons would be absolutely kick ass.

Eberhard, have you run any testing on the scalability
of the dual-core Opteron versus two single cores?  I'm
curious to see what others are seeing percentage-wise
for how much the second core really gives you versus two
cpu's.

David