<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Håkon.<br><br>Did you really hold the Nehalem Xeon chips in your hands? They probably require new motherboards with a new chipset.<br><br>It would be nice to hear from you some numbers concerning Harpertown vs Nehalem performance.<br>
<br>Unfortunately, I can not wait beyond Jan 1 due to financial constraints. <br><br>Ivan<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Håkon Bugge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hbugge@platform.com">hbugge@platform.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">They are _definitively_ worth waiting for, although I am not familiar with the release timing. But I have been running on a dual-socket with 8 cores and 16 SMTs. And I say they are worth waiting for.<br>
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At 01:57 14.10.2008, Ivan Oleynik wrote:<br>
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I am still in process of purchasing a new cluster and consider whether is worth waiting for new Intel Xeons. Does someone know when Intel will start selling Xeons based on Nehalem architecture? They announced desktop launch (Nov 16) but were quiet about server release.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Ivan<br>
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