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This is what AMD must focus on
AMD must focus on gaining ground in places where Intel isn't.AMD made a critical mistake when it thought that it could fight Intel head on in the mainstream marketplace. They don't have the resources for that and almost got crushed because of that boneheaded error. A mouse, however confident, should not challenge an elephant. Even a weakened one. Ever.
AMD must refashion themselves as a creator of specialty CPU products like this one.
585 = 4U
A DL585 is 4U in height. Likewise A DL385 is 2U. The DL785 is however 7U.(I've worked with hundreds of these boxes. Looking up manufacturer pages on HP's site is left an exercise for the reader.)
Nifty
I had one of the 8-way Sun machines mentioned in the story for a couple months' demo. It was very very sweet. We found for rather parallel simulation algorithm code written in C that judicious use of CPU affinity calls and management of memory access patterns got us quite close to linear 1:1 scaling up to 16 threads.I'd like to try one of these monsters, but HP doesn't let me configure and buy online ;-O
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