On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:15:02PM -0400, Northrup, Wilson wrote:
> "64-bit Intel(r) Xeon(tm) processors supporting 64-bit extension and 64-bit
> Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems"
>
> Please note that the DL360 has been using Intel Xeon DP processors which
> support Intel's EM64T extensions for quite some time now. This is not a
> recent development. The DL380 mentioned elsewhere in this thread also uses
> the same processors. We have a few hundred of each.
Learn something new every day...
So since we're on a Linux list, which cpu flags tell you that it's the
64-bit CPU in there? I know we've got a bunch of recent DL380 systems
installed and I'm wondering if they should have the 64-bit distros
installed.
> Since there are also some comments about Opteron, I will tell you that the
> DL385 _Opteron_ based system _blows_the_doors_off_ the DL360/DL380 Xeon's
> for very high percentage of our apps in both short and long modes (32 or
> 64bit modes that is...) There are a few apps we have where the Opterons
> are not faster or optimal for what we do, but there are not many.
We're buying the new DL385 systems now. You're right - they fly. Even
for Windows :-)
Thanks,
.../Ed
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