Re: AMD's well may be running dry

On 14 Mar, 16:27, s...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven M. Schweda) wrote:
From: b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



On Mar 13, 7:06 pm, s...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven M. Schweda) wrote:
From: b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

so you were around when this asteroid hit?
what happened to the dinosaurs is a world flood hit ...
ever hear of Noah and the ark?

Ever hear of Santa Claus and the tooth fairy?

For the love of God, or as a personal favor to me, please take this
entire inappropriate, pointless, vacuous discussion to a more
appropriate forum. (Perhaps comp.os.vms.nla0.)
ever hear of the real Mt Siani being discovered in Saudi Arabia?
all the events of the Bible are real. not just stories ...
archaeology is proving it every day ...
try these links and if you want to find out ...
[...]

Unlike the people who have been wasting much time and disk space in
attempts to persuade you of anything, I learned long ago that rational
arguments are almost always powerless against someone's faith. Faced
with someone who believes that a Biblical flood killed off the
dinosaurs, I simply decline to add more inappropriate, pointless clutter
to what was supposed to be (and should be) a VMS technical forum, in a
futile attempt to persuade him of anything at all. My time and disk
space are too valuable to me for that.

I will, however, renew my appeal that you and your opponents take
this "discussion" to a more appropriate forum, as simple courtesy would
demand, but, sadly, I must admit that experience deters me from holding
out much hope.

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Steven M. Schweda sms@antinode-org
382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818
Saint Paul MN 55105-2547

Before you dismiss the relevance of this discussion out of hand
consider the following.

SUN and the EPA are working on a server performance/power efficiency
metric as part of the Green Grid program. The idea is to provide an
energy efficiency rating for servers that takes into account the
capacity of a server something like the A-G white goods efficiency
ratings in the EU.

Once these have been agreed servers will get an efficiency rating and
you can bet your bottom dollar that some customer RFP's will start
appearing mandating A grade or whatever the scheme comes up with
servers. Vendors with hotter slower platforms will be excluded from
bidding.

Now you can understand Sun's motivation in this. The T1000/T2000 are
very very very likely to score whatever the highest efficiency grade
is and if the information that has leaked about Rock is true then this
will also apply to systems based on Rock as well. Other vendors with
less efficient less integrated technologies may struggle excluding
them from large parts of the market.

I would not like to hazard a guess as to where Itanium would be in the
future but based in Sun's current SWAP metric the current situation is
not great.

IBM, HP, Sun. Intel, Dell and AMD are all members of the Green Grid.

regards
Andrew Harrison

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