win2k pro dual processor support?

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Fabio

Hi all

AFAIK w2kpro does support dual cpu systems, doesn't it? so would it be
possible to run a workstation on a win2k pro system with two AMD Opteron
CPUs? Would I be better off using a 2k Server System?

Cheers for helping out. Rgds,

Fabio
 
Yes to multiple processors. No more than 2 however w/o HAL driver.

No to the server part.

Dave

| Hi all
|
| AFAIK w2kpro does support dual cpu systems, doesn't it? so would it be
| possible to run a workstation on a win2k pro system with two AMD Opteron
| CPUs? Would I be better off using a 2k Server System?
|
| Cheers for helping out. Rgds,
|
| Fabio
|
|
 
Yeah, it supports SMP dual processors.

My current opinion is that you'd be beter off running 2K Pro with dual
Xeons.

I just built a server based on dual Athlon 2800+ MP processors at the
client's request.

I was horribly disappointed with the overall performance, it was miserable.
All on-chip processes were wickedly fast, memory throughput was, however,
snail like. The memory throughput on my single processor 3Ghz. P4 was a
whopping 59% faster! Its kinda like having a factory that can produce a
million parts a day, but the company delivering the raw materials can only
deliver enough material to fabricate 47 parts per hour.

Maybe AMD will have solved their memory throughput prblems with the Opteron
chipset, but the AMD 760MP chipset has surely turned me against their SMP
offerings.
 
FWIW, just to harken back to my multi-processor mainframe days (Yeah! I
know - don't say it) the "normal" rule of thumb (which was generally
pretty accurate on an number of tests that were run) was that
performance improvement relative to a single processor was directly
proportional to the square root of the number of processors - thus 1.7
times a single processor for dual, 2x for 4, ~2.5 for 6x, 2.8 for 8x,
etc. The incremental improvement was so low after increasing to two or
four processors that it really wasn't worth going past 2 or 4 for
conventional Von Neumann architectures (as opposed to array processors,
which is another whole story). This was generally attributed to the
overhead incurred in managing/coordinating the multiple processors in
trying to do useful work, particularly on different parts of the same
problem.

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thanks both Colon and Jim! Your Infos are very much appreciated. So i'll
certainly have a look at Xeons too, above all, because with the newer ones
coming out, the prices of ther older drop :-)

Thanks and Regards,

Fabio
 
YW, Fabio. :)

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