AMD strictly moderated (AMD)

[jhalada]

wbmw,

And quite interestingly, too, since very few high end scalable server apps actually use floating point.

That's a good point (very few). But Barcelona may solidify AMD in the HPC market.

Another variable in the equation is that there are some code sequences that can be optimized through vectorization, and I am assuming that these SSE(2) instructions gain parformance proportionally with FP.

Maybe the improvements there can help Barcelona overcome Conroe's (general purpase) integer lead.

Joe