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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> .
[mailto:astroguy@bellsouth.net]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 11, 2002 11:25
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Rob Simac<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Fastest Intel
Processors<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=430540616-11012002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Rob,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=430540616-11012002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
really think this Ghz. goobly-gook is way over rated. I think, if you
look more closley at the problem, the key to superior proformance is in
the found in the actual construction or architecture of the
processor. The Itanium, for example only runs at 733 Mghz but it
has<SPAN class=510332616-11012002> (</SPAN><SPAN
class=510332616-11012002>on die) </SPAN><SPAN
class=510332616-11012002> </SPAN> 2meg of cashe on the L-2... The Alpha,
in its previous incarnation ran at only 233 but did 64 bit processing... Quite
amazing actually. A friend wrote me that:</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=430540616-11012002>"</SPAN>Red hat is working closely with Compaq to
solidify its OS to the<SPAN class=430540616-11012002> </SPAN>Alpha
architecture<SPAN class=430540616-11012002>"</SPAN>.<SPAN
class=430540616-11012002>.. I don't know for sure, first hand... But it is, of
course, the next logical step, since FreeBSD, already provides a clean UNIX 64
bit processing code for the
Alpha.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> beowulf-admin@beowulf.org
[mailto:beowulf-admin@beowulf.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Rob
Simac<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 11, 2002 10:04 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
beowulf@beowulf.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Fastest Intel
Processors<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> What is the fastest Intel processors
available to the public? Have the 2.0 Ghz been released? I have
also heard rumors that the 2.0 Ghz has problems running with Red Hat
7.1. Has anyone else heard this?</FONT></DIV>
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Ciao,</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>
Rob.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>======================================================<BR>
Rob Simac -- Therma-Wave, Inc. -- <A
href="mailto:rsimac@thermawave.com">rsimac@thermawave.com</A><BR>======================================================<BR>"Remember
this, foolish mortals, when ye stare headlong into the <BR>mind-paralyzing
void, the inky black nothingness of existence, the <BR>hellish yawning maw
of the abyss -- it's pretty damn dark, so give it a <BR>few minutes for your
eyes to
adjust."<BR>
Frank M. Carrano, Branford,
Conn.<BR>
(Bulwer-Lytton Writing Contest
Runner-up)</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>