Subject: Re: Xeon computers

From: George Bacskay <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:34:22 +1100

My sincere thanks to everyone who offered me help and advice on the
relative merits of Xeon and other computers for intensive numerical 
calculations.
The agreement was unanimous that for heavy numerical work xeons represent
poor value for money in comparison with other PIII macines and especially
when compared with AMD Athlon processors. The extra cache on the xeons
apparently makes very little difference to the performance.

Thanks and best regards,  George Bacskay

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School of Chemistry           
University of Sydney  
NSW 2006                                       
Australia

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