Recent content by rck01

Honest debate isn't working so you resort to personal attacks. Typical fanboy behavior - and a waste of my time. Disengaging... RCK

Said I don't work for Intel. Now. Present day. Never said I *didn't* work for them in the past... and for AMD... and for Cyrix... and for VIA... Microsoft... Compaq... HP... IBM... Dell... Citrix... :-) Experience. There is no substitute. RCK

Wrong. Though I must admit, I'm surprised it took this long for someone to trot out the "works for Intel" accusation. Must be a slow day... :-) RCK

Justly, As I mentioned before, this is a project for the InfoWorld Test Center. A private study, for one of our corporate clients, would be more specific in nature. However, given the data at hand, and taking into account the usage patterns observed at various customer sites, I'd be hard...

Actually, our primary business function is to monitor real-time performance for stock and equities trading workstations over time. We deploy a sophisticated array of metrics tracking agents and sample the runtime environment every 15-60 seconds for several weeks. The data is then aggregated to a...

Scarce or not, we're sitting here with the following lineup in our lab: IBM IntelliStation A Pro (2.2GHz Opteron 248) MPC NetFrame 600 (3.2GHz Prestonia) HP xw8200 (3.4GHz Nocona) Dell Precision 670 (3.6GHz Nocona) HP xw6200 (3.6GHz Nocona) All systems tested with 2GB RAM and identical SATA...

Typical. Your reaction to a poor showing by your CPU of preference is to dismiss the test as being irrelevant. A bit pathological, don't you think? Unfortunately, in my position I don't have the luxury of becoming emotionally attached to products. My customers - who are primarily in the...

Not sure what you're referring to - our review hasn't been published yet, so... RCK

All were 2-way running Windows XP (32-bit) SP1. Tests consisted of a mixture of client/server database, workflow, multimedia playback and media encoding (components of our Clarity Studio suite). Though its fast on linear tasks (OfficeBench is 20-25% faster), Opteron folds as we scale the number...

We're working on a comprehensive, 5-way platform review comparing 3 Nocona (2 HP, 1 Dell), 1 Opteron (IBM) and 1 Prestonia (MPC) configurations. So far, the Opteron box is the laggard. Note: You can read the review in an upcoming issue of InfoWorld (Test Center section). Should stir things up a...

I meant vs. Xeon. Under complex workloads, Xeon - especially the new Nocona-based model - stomps all over Opteron. RCK

Opteron is really good at doing a few things at once. Saturate the CPU, however, and it tanks. RCK

To the forum faithful: Just thought you would all be interested to know that we've made OfficeBench 3.01 and several other elements of our Benchmark Studio Framework available for FREE at our web site. Simply surf over to www.csaresearch.com and sign-up for our FREE Performance Portal...

What about more in-depth content? For example, articles that focus on complex Enterprise Computing issues like security, systems management and client/server scalability. There's a distinct lack of credible performance data on this type of real-world compute scenario. Would readers be willing to...