Re: [vox-tech] AMD Hammer, Athlon 64, Opteron...
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Re: [vox-tech] AMD Hammer, Athlon 64, Opteron...
> sorry, don't know much about this subject, but i should prolly start to
> get acquainted with it.
>
> i thought hammer == opteron? wasn't hammer the internal codename for
> what's now called opteron?
Er, Hammer = code name. Clawhammer = desktop code name. Sledgehammer = server
code name.
Architecture is called x86-64.
The first 2 implementations are called:
Athlon 64 (desktop) for 1-2 way systems
Opteron for 1-8 way systems (more with extra glue).
> also, will the itanium "just work" as well?
No, the Itanium is the first implemenation of the IA64 architecture. The
current chip is the Itanium-2. I believe the limited and very slow ia32
emulation is for user space, not for booting a ia32 based linux distribution.
Not to mention paying $15k for a dual IA64-2 only able to run ia32 code
as fast as a PII-300 is kinda silly.
--
Bill Broadley
Mathematics
UC Davis
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