On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, amjad ali wrote: > Hello, > > Please help me out in selecting any one choice of the following: > (Currently I am making a gigabit ethernet cluster of 4 compute nodes > (totaling 8 cores), with each node having) > > (Choice 1) > One Processor: Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.66 GHz Processor, FSB 1333MHz, 4MB L2. > Motherboard: Intel Entry Server Board Intel S3200SHV with intel 3200 Chipset > supporting 1333/1066/800 MHz FSB . > RAM: 2GB DDR2 800MHz ECC System Memory. > > (Choice 2) > One Processor: Intel Xeon 3075 2.66 GHz FSB1333 4MBL2. > Motherboard: Intel Entry Server Board Intel S3200SHV with intel 3200 > Chipset supporting 1333/1066/800 MHz FSB . > RAM: 2GB DDR2 800MHz ECC System Memory. > > Which one system has larger memory-bandwidth/CPU-core? > Any other comment/remark? > My area work deals in sparse matrices. > I near future I would like to add 12 similar compute nodes in the cluster.
Based on the above numbers - the memory bandwidth numbers should be the same. And I expect the performance to be the same in both cases. Ideally you would have access to both machines [perhaps from the vendor] - and run streams benchmark on each - to see if there is any difference. Satish
