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Date:	Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:10:50 -0700
From:	"Brian D. Haymore" <brian AT chpc DOT utah DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: K7/Athlon, Thoughts anyone?
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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.

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Brian D. Haymore
University of Utah
Center for High Performance Computing
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Salt Lake City, Ut 84112-0190

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