[KLUG Members] Dual Core systems and Linux

[Andrew Eidson]

It is a proprietary software called SASIxp that is a school database for
handling attendance, grades, et all..  So again it was a specific program
but since that program is what my company specializes in that is why we did
the switch.. Our programmers saw about 10 to 20% increase in compiling
software speeds (with .NET) again we did the switch about 2 years ago when
the 64's first came out.. so we have not had any of the newer Intel D's in
so can't say about the latest set of processors if there is still a
difference or not. 

-----Original Message-----
From: members-bounces at kalamazoolinux.org
[mailto:members-bounces at kalamazoolinux.org] On Behalf Of Rick
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:52 AM
To: The main KLUG mailing list.
Subject: RE: [KLUG Members] Dual Core systems and Linux

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 08:37 -0400, Andrew Eidson wrote:
> I have been an AMD fan ever since the Athlon line came out.. We recently
> converted my entire company to AMD 64 machines because we found with our
> main application when running processes on a high end Intel System took
> almost 2 hours to run.. on the comparable AMD 64 processor it took 2
minutes
> to run. 

Ok, I'm not really on one side or the other so much, but anyone that
says "This same thing ran 60x faster on CPU X vs CPU Y and I'm going to
be looking at more differences than just the CPU used. Can I ask for
more specifics on what exactly ran 60 times faster and what else was
different in the machines?

Rick

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