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One thing to warch out for is that multiple-Opteron system performance depends heavily on job loading. They utterly shine at mixes that have lots of small jobs running independently; they're at their worst when you have one honking task that runs with a memory footprint that pretty much chews up all of the physical memory.

Opteron systems are NUMA, so performance tracks what you get from NUMA systems (and obviously depends on how good your NUMA support is.)

I would expect Solaris to be quite good, Linux at least fair. Microsoft I frankly haven't a clue, but IIRC they never really planned to run MSWindows on NUMA hardware so it may be an afterthought or worse.

Bottom line, as usual, is to benchmark with your actual load mix.
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Ah that makes senses  voska | 07/25/05
It's only gonna continue to grow now that...  realitycheck101 | 07/25/05
But this can't be!!! Intel has a monopoly...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/25/05
90% sounds like Monopoly to me  voska | 07/25/05
I see your mistake  Prognosticator | 07/25/05
that argument didn't work for MS  JoeMama_z | 07/25/05
so Dell does not sell AMD because...  ~doolittle~ | 07/25/05
Definitions  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/25/05
Sorry, it doesn't work that way.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/25/05
For once, Don's right  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/25/05
Sorry No_Facts  Richard Flude | 07/25/05
Claim - Truth  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/25/05
Sorry wrong again  Richard Flude | 07/25/05
Tell you what, lets see what the court says.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/26/05
Apples & Oranges  nottheusual1 | 07/26/05
Like I said, we'll wait for the courts ruling.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/26/05
What??? Intel isn't a monopoly.  nucrash | 07/26/05
Wild claims do not a court case make.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/26/05
Find the proof AMD will  nucrash | 07/26/05
Yet to be seen.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/26/05
Not a monopoly, but bad business practices  stevenv1999@... | 07/26/05
Check  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/25/05
If you need better benchmarks...  ShadeTree | 07/25/05
not good for wallet and power  ~doolittle~ | 07/25/05
Performance: zero  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/25/05
Please tell me what software you are ...  ShadeTree | 07/26/05
Question for ya Mr. kidding  Monkey_MCSE | 07/25/05
Terminal Server and Citrix on AMD 64-bit Opteron Hardware  ~doolittle~ | 07/25/05
Watch out for DOA  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/25/05
We just rolled out two Opteron servers  toadlife | 07/25/05
Partitioning  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/25/05
Tons of small jobs sounds about right  toadlife | 07/25/05
hehe Imail on the opteron  Monkey_MCSE | 07/25/05
Tons of people run Imail  toadlife | 07/25/05
You're all off topic  bidemytime | 07/25/05
Wow, So No_Ax Said The Intel Lawsuit Wouldn't Affect AMD  itanalyst | 07/26/05
Hmmm...  Grayson Peddie | 07/27/05

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