Thanks, that is promising. :-) I'll look forward to trying out one of these
systems myself some time.
- Garrett
On Dec 19, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
With assistance from a local hardware vendor, I hope to observe
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
With assistance from a local hardware vendor, I hope to observe OpenIndiana
running (or not) on a two-socket Opteron 6200 system, at least for an hour or
two.
I did get an opportunity this past weekend to test a two-socket
Opteron 6220 (two
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:00:35PM -0500, Richard Lowe wrote:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 06:52, Hans Rosenfeld
rosenf...@grumpf.hope-2000.org wrote:
The topology information for the scheduler would need to be updated, and
the topology information for FMA will probably need some work, too. The
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 03:33:45PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Is Illumos currently known to execute properly on the new AMD
Bulldozer-based CPUs such as the Opteron 6200 series? If not, is
someone working on it?
I would expect that it just works, although some things could be done
to
On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
The desktop Bulldozer CPU performance (AMD FX-8150) seems to be rather
lacking, and in fact I see that Intel has posted formal SPEC results for this
CPU in order to rub AMD's nose in it.
The Opteron 6200 performance seems quite
Is Illumos currently known to execute properly on the new AMD
Bulldozer-based CPUs such as the Opteron 6200 series? If not, is
someone working on it?
From what I have read, the power management for Bulldozer is different
than previous Opteron CPUs and even recent Linux releases do not have
I agree, it is not a 16-core, merely a 12-core.
I was just responding to Garrett's question about a modern AMD CPU.
- Rich
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Rich wrote:
root@nosuch1:~# smbios -i 1024ID SIZE TYPE1024 96
