[Wien] Benchmark on opteron - test on a fully loaded computer

[Peter Blaha]

As I said, I have not heared explicit timings from the new Xeon 
generation. From Intels website one can see that the newest generation of 
Xeons seem to be similar to Conroe (clock, FSB) and have a low power 
consumption. (65 Watt)

I've not heared about 8 core (4 Xeons) boards either, so if this is a 
requirement for you, bad luck. (I think I've heared an announcement of 
4 core Intel cpus released by the end of this year, but not sure.)

see www.intel.com/products

 > Dear Peter,
> I am very happy to have your experience concerning Intel and AMD 
> processor. We are planning to buy a new cluster for the beginning of 
> 2007 and some of my colleague would like to be able to run a SMP code on 
> a 8 cores system. Do you know if this new intel architecture (Conroe) is 
> (or will be) supported on motherboard with 4 chips (8 cores) ?
> I could not find at the moment systems with a mother board that support 
> more than one Core 2 Extreme processor. Am I right or it is not yet 
> supported ?
> May be a stupid question but are the new intel Xeon Dual core expected 
> to have performance similar to the actual Conroe ?
> 
> If somebody in the Wien list have already somewhere the results of  some 
> WIEN (and if possible VASP :-! )  benchmarks on 4chips (8 cores) new 
> AMD  and new Intel processors, I will be very happy to have it and to 
> have also his (her) experience.
> We are also very interested in the power consumption, so comments are 
> welcome.
> Regards
> 
> Florent
> 
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