Hi,
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, 3:49pm -0800, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:38:24PM -0500, Peter Shenkin wrote:
>
> > For Opteron, if you are a commercial software provider, one fewer
> > platform to port to, QA regularly and deliver sure makes a
> > big difference. It would take at least a 25% performance increase
> > to make this even worth considering.
>
> We've been getting inquiries from commercial software vendors who are
> interested in the Opteron's 64-bit mode for big memory reasons.
For what kind of application? For our comp. chemistry stuff, we
have occasionally, but very rarely, wished we had bigger virtual
address spaces.
-P.
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