Sender: brian AT chpc DOT utah DOT edu Message-ID: <386281CA.2D6ECD49@chpc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:10:50 -0700 From: "Brian D. Haymore" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: K7/Athlon, Thoughts anyone? References: <3860FD5C DOT BDD0C7DF AT lycosmail DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > > As a (feeble?) attempt to put some more life into this otherwise dead > list (not really dead, but very little is going on. Maybe everybody's on > vacation[Vacation, what's that?]) I'd like to hear anyone's thoughts on > the AMD Athlon. It's strengths, weaknesses, who wants one, who doesn't. > > It should probably center around the possibility for optimizing > GCC(Formerly EGCS)/PGCC for it. > > Maybe as a sideline, some comments on the IA-64, and EPIC. Apparrently > some compiler writers are excited, but maybe we should hear more, beyond > the docs, to what it could actually mean. > > Anyone, Anyone? I am yet to find with my tests any weekness in the athlon. We have now around 12 of these systems in use for various tasks and all without any problems. The only compaint I can make is the fact that all motherboards I've found only support 3 DIMMS. Most claim to only supprot up to 256MB per dimm although some extra searching suggest that support for 512MB dimms exists. The 2.3.3x kernels have extra support for the new chipsets as well as some knowledge of the athlong and seems to be quite solid. Just my two cents. -- Brian D. Haymore University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing 155 South 1452 East RM 405 Salt Lake City, Ut 84112-0190 Email: brian AT chpc DOT utah DOT edu - Phone: (801) 585-1755 - Fax: (801) 585-5366