general question on speed using quad core Xeons

[Berend van Wachem]

Hi Barry,


> http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/hpc_ansys.htm
> http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/hpc_md_nastr.htm


Aren't both benchmarks run on Quads? The difference just being the cache 
per processor? Or am I mistaken?

Berend.








> these are the two benchmarks that reflect the bottlenecks of memory 
> bandwidth.
> When going from dual to quad they get 1.2 times the performance, when 
> one would
> like 2 times the performance.
> 
>    Barry
> 
> 
> On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
>> Just a note:
>>
>> Intel does publish benchmarks for their chips.
>>
>> http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/hpcapp.htm
>>
>> Satish
>>
>