<BR><BR><B><I>David van der Spoel <spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div>Kazem Jahanbakhsh wrote:<BR>> Dear Christian,<BR>> <BR>> I have confused with your description. I have some simple <BR>> questions now, first is what does "Opteron-DC" stand for? <BR>> Doesn't it mean "Dual-Core Opteron"? You stated that "N" <BR>> column in the benchmark table means number of cores and not <BR>> the processors. I don't realize this at all. In the <BR>> presented benchmark table for single processors they brought<BR>> the results of "Opteron" processors with N=2 and N=4, if we<BR>> consider the "N" value as the number of cores on one <BR>> hardware chip, this does not match with the the Opteron <BR>> processors that exist in single core architecture in the <BR>> real world. I can't understand this contradiction in any <BR>> way. Also
in that table they showed the performance outputs<BR>> of "Opteron-DC" processors with N=2 and N=4. This results <BR>> doesn't mean if we consider the "N" as the number of cores <BR>> per chip because in the market the "Dual-Core Opteron" <BR>> processors only exist in dual core<BR>> structure and AMD doesn't<BR>> bring the Quad-Core processors into the market. for this <BR>> reason I cant interpret the "N" number as the number of <BR>> cores on single processor. Please clarify me with this <BR>> misunderstanding.</div> <div><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </div> <div><STRONG><EM>David van der Spoel </EM>wrote:<BR></STRONG>> Sorry for the confusion. N is the number of cores, so N is 1 for an old <BR>>opteron, if N is 4 it means 2 dual-core chips. One new core is faster than >one old opteron.<BR></div> <div>Thanks for your attention. I didn't find out what does <STRONG>"Opteron-DC"</STRONG> stand for? Please tell me what is the
differences between the "<STRONG>Opteron</STRONG>" processor types with N=2 or N=4 and "<STRONG>Opteron-DC</STRONG>" processor types with similar number of cores (N=2 or 4) which you have brought in your single processor benchmarks. Can you tell me some examples from the real AMD chipset models that exists in the market today?</div> <div> </div> <div>regards,</div> <div>Jahanbakhsh<BR>________________________________________________________________________<BR></div></BLOCKQUOTE><p> 
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