Re: the pentium vs. athlon question

From: Allen (spam_at_swnews.net)
Date: 08/27/03 

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:13:37 -0700

Ramakanth Munipalli wrote:

> i do believe this must be an often asked question, but i
> find no recent studies comparing P-4 vs. athlon in building
> LINUX based clusters for high performance computing.
> does any one have data on comparing P4-Xeon-2.4 GHz
> with, say, MP2400 Athlon based dual processor cluster
> running parallel code using MPI?
> athlon used to be much more cost-effective at one time,
> but doesnt seem like it any more....

How so? I see 2.4 xeons for $213 each and 2400 athlon mps for $139 each.

> i will appreciate any leads.
> thanks,
> ramakanth m.
> tmboura@yahoo.com