On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:28:49 -0500 Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Search the performance archives for the last 4 or 5 months for PPC / > pseries machines. > > You'll find a very long thread about the disappointing performance the > tester got with a rather expensive P Series machine. And his happy > ending of testing on an Opteron machine. Amen, brother :) We hoped throwing a silly pSeries 650 would solve all our problems. Boy were we wrong... a world of pain... Don't go there - just buy an Opteron system - if you're talking about IBM big iron, a decent Opteron will cost you about as much as a couple of compilers and an on-site visit from IBM... Cheers, Gavin.
