[Beowulf] Intel Quad-Core or AMD Opteron

James Cownie jcownie at cantab.net
Wed Aug 22 13:51:30 PDT 2007


On 21 Aug 2007, at 20:58, Ruhollah Moussavi Baygi wrote:
>
> Essentially, are Intel Quad CPUs having really FOUR cores? Are they  
> really 64-bit processors, as Opterons are?
>
Intel's quad cores are 64 bit processors.

(FWIW I work for Intel, but this is such an uncontentious statement I  
doubt that it matters :-)

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-- Jim
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