[lug] more hardware opinions?

[Hugh Brown]

We did some basic testing of a variety of machines and the AMD64/Opteron's
were well ahead of the rest.

This isn't a definitive benchmark, but we ran the openssl speed test and
then added up all the results for the various tests.

We tested some HP-UX boxes as well as Linux


Model:Processor:openssl version:Total Openssl:rpmbuild openldap
HP B2000:Single PA8500 500MHz:0.9.8:1825:n/a
HP A500:Dual PA8600 550MHz:0.9.8:2379:n/a
HP XW6000:Dual Xeon 2.4GHZ:0.9.7a:17884: didn't test
Dell box:P4 3GHz:0.9.7a:22416: didn't test
HP XW4300:Pentium 840x2 3.2GHz:0.9.7a:22546: 10:37 minutes
beige box:AMD64 3400 2.2GHz:0.9.7a:71601:    13:00 minutes
HP dx5150:AMD64 3800 2.4GHz:0.9.7a:73962:    12:51 minutes
HP DL585: Dual Opteron 850 2.4GHz:0.9.7a:78102:  10:30 minutes
HP XW9300: Dual Opteron 250 2.4GHz:0.9.7a:78271: didn't test


Sorry for the format.  I'll have to check to see what values got summed,
but the bigger the better for openssl.

Here's another benchmark that was looking at comparing the G5 to xeon and
opteron:

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436

Hugh

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, D. Stimits wrote:

> It seems there are way more cpu types available now than just a few
> years ago, and almost all of them have gone way down in price. I'm
> especially noticing some opteron boards. I know the opterons work in
> linux, and that they have both 32 bit and 64 bit instructions natively.
> What I'm really curious about though is how opterons would compare to
> something like the most recent pentiums, or the athlons? Does anyone
> here have any experience or heard anything one way or another as to
> where opterons, athlons, and newer Intel cpu's compare on the food chain?
>
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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