Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[pgerassi]

Dear Joe:

Another thing about the two sets of scores is that the Opteron systems had much lower maximium response times and more than twice the disks than the Itanium system at the top. For one entry, deferred ship, Itanium had over 4 minutes (258+ seconds) for the maximum response and the Opteron in the same category had only 0.50 seconds! And a maximum response of any kind of 5.13 seconds, over 50 times faster than the Itanium. I guess those maximum resonse times required something that didn't fit into those large 6MB L3 caches, but the Opterons didn't break a sweat with their 1MB L2s.

Pete