Dual-core Opteron Support on RHEL v3 2006-01-23 - By coyote@(protected)
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Hi Brian!
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Brian Long wrote:
> Your are correct that this was my issue, but we've found the real
> culprit. We were using back-end Teambuilder nodes (product from
> Trolltech) to run the gcc invocations. It turns out that if I run a
> compile job on the front-end 8-way (4 dual-core) system without
> Teambuilder, it outperforms single-core performance.
That's good news. Have you made any measurements yet? (I.E: by how much do
the dual-core machines outperform the single-core ones of the same
config).. I'd be curious to know if it's closer to a 90% improvement or if
it's much lower...
> Because of this new-found data (as of about 10 days ago), we are re-
> evaluating dual-core systems for these compiles as well as for business
> apps like Oracle RDBMS. Internally, we are skipping RHEL 3 Update 6 and
> we're releasing an Update 7-based distro in the April timeframe where we
> also plan to announce internal IT support for dual-core systems.
Thanks for the feedback.. :) I'd been keeping an eye on your results.. :)
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