Quoting Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Climb back? From/to where?
Technically Intel is ahead right now in raw speed. The Woodcrest processors (I think those are the also known as Core 2 Duos) do outperform anything AMD has. However, I think where parallelizable jobs are concerned, AMDs quads will outperform Intel's quads as the intel quad is just 2 duals bolted together.
FWIW I really like my AMD64 X2 processors. I have one at home and on my recommendation we have purchased a whole lot of them at work and they are working out very nicely. We also have Opterons which are very nice also. Higher memory performance.
We've bought a couple Verari racks of woodcrest systems and added them into our LSF pool. Some tools are faster on there, others still run faster on AMD systems. I'm still partial to AMD CPUs for my personal boxes as well.
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