Intel E7500 versus ServerWorks GC-LE/HE

[Craig Tierney]

Systems that use the i860 have better memory bandwidth
than the E7500 and the Serverworks GC-LE.  I think the number
is about 10% but I don't have it in front of me.

The main difference between the E7500 (and the GC-LE) and the 
GC-HE is that the GC-HE has 6.4 GB/s of memory bandwidth and
the others along with the i860 only has 3.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

I would love to get a dual motherboard with the GC-HE chipset,
but from what I have heard no one is going to be doing that for
quite some time.

Craig

> I would be interested also to hear people's opinion
> on why either the Intel E7500 (=Plumas) and the Serverworks GC-HE
> chipsets are supposed to be better than the I860-based
> systems which offer RDRAM?  Why is there such a push to
> get chipsets that support DDR SDRAM--especially when the
> price isn't much different anymore?
> 
> Steve Timm
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Steven C. Timm (630) 840-8525  timm at fnal.gov  http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
> Fermilab Computing Division/Operating Systems Support
> Scientific Computing Support Group--Computing Farms Operations
> 
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Luc Lalonde wrote:
> 
> > Hello Folks,
> >
> > I'm wondering if any of you can comment on the comparison of the Intel
> > E7500 and the ServerWorks GC-LE/HE in this article:
> >
> > http://www.inqst.com/articles/p4csio/0220main.htm
> >
> > Is the Plumas chipset refered to in the article the E7500?
> >
> > It's interesting that Dell has chosen the ServerWorks GC-HE for its
> > PowerEdge 4600 systems instead of the Intel E7500.  SuperMicro now has a
> > motherboard for each chipset.
> >
> > We're in the process of choosing the nodes for our 16 node cluster and
> > would appreciate any comments on these two motherboards.
> >
> > Thank You.
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> > Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF
> >
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> > Courriel: llalonde at giref.ulaval.ca
> >
> >
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