Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 May 1999 23:18:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | Robert Minichino <> | Subject | Re: Linux can't stay up for more than an hour? |
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > > It is hard to increase cpu<->ram bandwidth these days. > > Sun seems to do it by interleaving memory up to four (maybe even eight) times. > This technique has been around for far longer than Sun has been a company.
A new term I've heard for it is "ABP" (Address Bit Permutation). Same stuff, new name.
> > I assume Intel > > and other are doing the same with their high-end serverboards (Xeon and that > > kind of stuff). > No, the Xeons seem to have the same sucky motherboards as the rest of > Intel's stuff. If you need main memory bandwidth and you have that > kind of money, buy an Alpha DS20.
We sell four different quad Xeon mainboards that do 4:1 interleaving, two from AMD and two from Intel. I have yet to measure the memory bandwidth of the systems as of late; I will have to put together a benchmark session.
-- Robert Minichino Chief Engineer Denarius Enterprises, Inc. http://www.denarius.com/
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