Re: 1-way 2-way

From: Bill (bverzal_at_komatsuna.com)
Date: 03/29/04


Date: 28 Mar 2004 17:22:28 -0800

Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@parallab.uib.no> wrote in message news:<slrnc6du79.vfr.janfrode@lapprose.ii.uib.no>...
> In article <ett9c.53611$re.3166401@news20.bellglobal.com>, casey wrote:
> >
> > OK, what is a 1-way CPU card and two way CPU card.
>
> 1-way CPU card is the traditional cpu card with one cpu core.
>
> 2-way CPU card is a card with dual-core cpus (POWER4). These dual-core
> cpus typically share some resources (L2 cache, memory bandwith), so two
> 1-way CPU cards would be more powerfull than a 2-way CPU card.
>
>
> -jf

Although I technically agree with your statements, I doubt you could
find an application where someone would notice the difference.

BV