Re: offtopic - Woodcrest vs. Xeon
Thanks, Geir, Yes, I'm comparing two Woodcrest chips (4 cores total) with 2 single-core Xeon chips. I'll check the specs again -- good comments. Someone recommended this Wiki article, I really liked it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Xeon That's pretty cool about the benchmark. WILL On 10/23/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full disclosure, I work for Intel. :) First, are you sure it's a 2GHz Woodcrest? I thought it would be a 3GHz part. Second, is it two Woodcrest (for 4 cores total) or just 1 Woodcrest? Third, woodcrest is an internal code name, and the parts are sold under the Xeon brand, so which Xeon is a question you want to ask the vendor - it could be woodcrest based as well. Finally, the current world record in spec's JBB2005 benchmark is held by IBM with their JVM on woodcrest (Xeon 5160) at 114k bops/JVM on a 4 core machine... You can go see the results here : http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results geir Will Glass-Husain wrote: Hi, This is a little off-topic but I thought I'd do a quick poll. I've got an opportunity to reconfigure my multi-server Tomcat/Java setup for a computation-heavy webapp. One vendor is proposing dual process Woodcrest (dual core) 2.0 GHz, the other is promoting dual Xeon 3.2GHz. The Woodcrest's have slower clock speeds but the dual core is supposed to make it faster. Just curious if anyone has experience with the Woodcrest servers - in particular if anyone has benchmarked Sun's JDK on the two processors with a computation heavy app I'd love to hear from them. (Can Sun's JDK make effective use of the multi-processor, multi-core system?) Cheers, WILL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forio Business Simulations Will Glass-Husain [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.forio.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: offtopic - Woodcrest vs. Xeon
IIRC the single core xeons are the old architecture, and really suck (speed, heat and cost) compared to the new core architecture. -dain On Oct 23, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Will Glass-Husain wrote: Thanks, Geir, Yes, I'm comparing two Woodcrest chips (4 cores total) with 2 single-core Xeon chips. I'll check the specs again -- good comments. Someone recommended this Wiki article, I really liked it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Xeon That's pretty cool about the benchmark. WILL On 10/23/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full disclosure, I work for Intel. :) First, are you sure it's a 2GHz Woodcrest? I thought it would be a 3GHz part. Second, is it two Woodcrest (for 4 cores total) or just 1 Woodcrest? Third, woodcrest is an internal code name, and the parts are sold under the Xeon brand, so which Xeon is a question you want to ask the vendor - it could be woodcrest based as well. Finally, the current world record in spec's JBB2005 benchmark is held by IBM with their JVM on woodcrest (Xeon 5160) at 114k bops/JVM on a 4 core machine... You can go see the results here : http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results geir Will Glass-Husain wrote: Hi, This is a little off-topic but I thought I'd do a quick poll. I've got an opportunity to reconfigure my multi-server Tomcat/Java setup for a computation-heavy webapp. One vendor is proposing dual process Woodcrest (dual core) 2.0 GHz, the other is promoting dual Xeon 3.2GHz. The Woodcrest's have slower clock speeds but the dual core is supposed to make it faster. Just curious if anyone has experience with the Woodcrest servers - in particular if anyone has benchmarked Sun's JDK on the two processors with a computation heavy app I'd love to hear from them. (Can Sun's JDK make effective use of the multi-processor, multi-core system?) Cheers, WILL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forio Business Simulations Will Glass-Husain [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.forio.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: offtopic - Woodcrest vs. Xeon
Full disclosure, I work for Intel. :) First, are you sure it's a 2GHz Woodcrest? I thought it would be a 3GHz part. Second, is it two Woodcrest (for 4 cores total) or just 1 Woodcrest? Third, woodcrest is an internal code name, and the parts are sold under the Xeon brand, so which Xeon is a question you want to ask the vendor - it could be woodcrest based as well. Finally, the current world record in spec's JBB2005 benchmark is held by IBM with their JVM on woodcrest (Xeon 5160) at 114k bops/JVM on a 4 core machine... You can go see the results here : http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results geir Will Glass-Husain wrote: Hi, This is a little off-topic but I thought I'd do a quick poll. I've got an opportunity to reconfigure my multi-server Tomcat/Java setup for a computation-heavy webapp. One vendor is proposing dual process Woodcrest (dual core) 2.0 GHz, the other is promoting dual Xeon 3.2GHz. The Woodcrest's have slower clock speeds but the dual core is supposed to make it faster. Just curious if anyone has experience with the Woodcrest servers - in particular if anyone has benchmarked Sun's JDK on the two processors with a computation heavy app I'd love to hear from them. (Can Sun's JDK make effective use of the multi-processor, multi-core system?) Cheers, WILL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
offtopic - Woodcrest vs. Xeon
Hi, This is a little off-topic but I thought I'd do a quick poll. I've got an opportunity to reconfigure my multi-server Tomcat/Java setup for a computation-heavy webapp. One vendor is proposing dual process Woodcrest (dual core) 2.0 GHz, the other is promoting dual Xeon 3.2GHz. The Woodcrest's have slower clock speeds but the dual core is supposed to make it faster. Just curious if anyone has experience with the Woodcrest servers - in particular if anyone has benchmarked Sun's JDK on the two processors with a computation heavy app I'd love to hear from them. (Can Sun's JDK make effective use of the multi-processor, multi-core system?) Cheers, WILL -- Forio Business Simulations Will Glass-Husain [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.forio.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
