[geeks] sigh.

[David Passmore]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:29:46AM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Stefan Molnar wrote:
> 
> > I refuse to go near a 6500 since the back plane is slower than anything.
> > I have seen and felt at times where a 4x4 420r can out compile a fully
> > loaded e6500.  Shoot that 6500 and make it into a nice case for other
> > boxes.
> 
> It's got bigger latencies than the 420R/450/250/220R.  But that's because
> it's designed for MANY more processors.  If you are only doing 4 or less
> processors, you are better off with the smaller server and it WILL run
> circles around the bigger machine.  It's when you go to more than 4
> processors that the x500 series starts to come into its own.

The 4500 is a nicely designed machine. As I understand it the 6500 has the
same backplane bandwidth as a 4500, but takes more processors-- go figure
that one out.

David