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Not a Big Deal - Power4 is a dual core chip
IBM is way behind Itanium on per-core performance. They have been playing the benchmark game with dual core Power4 chips for two years now. You don't really know what IBM used to achieve this benchmark because they can turn off one of the cores and use its cache to improve performance of the active one. Most of IBM's best benchmarks were obtained this way, especially in HPTC technical benchmarks.

The reality is that Itanium will blow Power4 away as time goes on. That's why IBM is moving to the Power5 soon.
Posted by: desultorypolemic   Posted on: 02/19/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Only in this instance......  scurling | 02/18/04
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Not only but also  Fred Fredrickson | 02/18/04
Good!  michael-t | 02/18/04
price of PowerPC  paul@... | 02/18/04
Not a Big Deal - Power4 is a dual core chip  desultorypolemic | 02/19/04

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