Re: tlug: Re: linux cluster

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Scott Stone writes:
 > On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Darren Cook wrote:
 > 
 > > >[If] your main bottleneck is CPU <-> memory bandwidth. This
 > > >implies two things:
 > > >
 > > >* Buy the biggest cache you can get
 > > 
 > > Pentium-II seems limited to 512Kb cache. The next Intel chip is supposed to
 > > have larger cache (and be better designed for parallel processing), but it
 > > is going to be *much* more expensive. 
 > 
 > hm, AMD K6s can handle more than 512kb...
 > 
But they lack the floating point performance, although they are faster 
at integer at the same clock speed.

Marcus

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