[lug] more hardware opinions?

[Dean Brissinger]

I'm very interested in getting a Sun Ultra 20 or SunFire X1200 because of
the test results I've seen.  I intend to run VMWARE or Virtual Server
however and really need a machine that can multitask.  Not sure if the x64
platform has much to gain in that area.

More on Sun using Opteron:  http://www.sun.com/x64
"It's no wonder our competitor has so much trouble catching up since their
name rhymes with HELL." -- Sun Microsystems


-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Brown [mailto:hugh at math.byu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:47 AM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [lug] more hardware opinions?

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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