[Beowulf] AMD 6100 vs Intel 5600

[Kilian CAVALOTTI]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> Looks like it's time to start evaluating the AMD 6100 (magny-cours)
> offerings versus the Intel 5600 (Nehalem-EX?) offerings.  Any suggestions
> for resources?

Just for the sake of precision, Intel 5600 series was codenamed
Westmere (dual-socket, 32nm, 6-cores, 3 memory channels). Intel 7500
series was codenamed Beckton, aka Nehalem-EX (quad-socket and beyond,
45nm, 8-cores, 4 memory-channels).

I would say that the 2x6-cores Magny-Cours probably has to be compared
to Nehalem-EX.

Some SPEC results are being posted on
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q1/

Cheers,
-- 
Kilian