Fastest Intel Processors

[Dominic Wu]

One could, of course, go to the source: http://www.intel.com/ and confirm
the same information (2.2GHz, .13micron, 512K cache, etc.)
What they mention on the 512K cache, though, was more interesting:

512KB or 256 KB, Level 2 Advanced Transfer Cache
512 KB L2 Advanced Transfer Cache (ATC) is available with speeds 2.20 GHz
and 2 GHz. 256 KB L2 ATC is available with speeds 1.30 GHz to 2 GHz. The
Level 2 ATC delivers a much higher data throughput channel between the Level
2 cache and the processor core. The Advanced Transfer Cache consists of a
256-bit (32-byte) interface that transfers data on each core clock. As a
result, the IntelR PentiumR 4 processor at 2.20 GHz can deliver a data
transfer rate of 70 GB/s. This compares to a transfer rate of 16 GB/s on the
PentiumR III processor at 1 GHz. Features of the ATC include:

Non-Blocking, full speed, on-die level 2 cache
8-way set associativity
256-bit data bus to the level 2 cache
Data clocked into and out of the cache every clock cycle

How does the market speak of the data transfer rate that is almost 5 fold
increase over P3s sit with our esteemed colleagues?

-----Original Message-----
From: beowulf-admin at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-admin at beowulf.org]On
Behalf Of Craig Tierney
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:13 AM
To: Rob Simac
Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Re: Fastest Intel Processors


The 2.2 Ghz cpus have just been released.  This generation
of cpu is built at 0.13 microns and has twice as big of a
L2 cache (512 KB).   These are the single processor versions.
The Xeon (smp) chips should follow shortly (I am guessing).
Go look at the roadmaps at www.theregister.co.uk.  They tend to
be accurate.

I have not heard that there is a problem with the 2.0 Ghz.  Is
it a problem with RedHat or the Linux kernel specifically?  We
had no problems with the 1.7 Ghz Xeon chips, but they are not the
2.0 Ghz that you are talking about.

Craig

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:03:35AM -0800, Rob Simac wrote:
>   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?
>
>                       Ciao,
>                            Rob.
>
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> few minutes for your eyes to adjust."
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Craig Tierney (ctierney at hpti.com)
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