Quote Originally Posted by duploxxx View Post
have you ever worked with those 4s 73xx and 74xx bandwidth starving servers?

95% of the market, no rather 5% of the intel server market and most bought by fouls thinking they buy the right server while it is total junk equal to the pentium xeon era.



beckton is a whole different story, aiming for other market share (RISC - sparc) and to expensive to compare against 4P magny cours, not to mention already 1-2 years delayed, sounds like itanium
Yes thats true but since beckton is x86 it can run quite a few x86 based network app's that magny cours can also do.

The impression of HT in such app's is not at 0%, dont think people will not buy beckton 4P systems for things like virtualization, cloud, etc. The 4P based on beckton will in no way be a slouch and may give the 4P magny cours a very bad fight.

I know people who run a cloud center and they use mostly quad nehalems in 2P sets connected via stream data cable. If they got their hands on a 4P based on Beckton that would equal about 4 * 2P "Nehalem" in performance if we take it as scalier which both do not.

The 4P Beckton will give them more energy efficiency and effectiveness. Also the software will not need to be modified much its a win win scenario.