Originally Posted by
Hans de Vries
I haven't seen anything yet in the discussions about the faith of Intel's
Boxboro top server platform, currently host to Beckton and waiting to
receive the 10 core Westmere-EX (Eagleton) in Q3-2011 and the next
Itanium (the 32nm Poulson) in 2012.
The bits and pieces now public and the inherent latency increase
and bandwidth reduction from the Millbrook memory buffer-on-board
architecture (1.066 GHz) seems to suggest that Interlagos will be
15% faster in Integer and 50% to 60% faster in FP applications as a
10 core 2.66 GHz Eagleton with 165W (cpu) +35W (buf) = 200W TDP.
(even without using any AVX)
With both having a 32nm process and about the same die size.
I wonder what they can (and will) do to please Oracle and IBM in terms
of performance or that they'll try to convert to Patsburg / SandyBridge EX
as fast as they can.
Regards, Hans
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