Tag: barcelona

• AMD Barcelona vs. Intel Nehalem

  We are looking at switching some of our servers from AMD Opteron Barcelona quad-core processors to the new Intel 5520 Nehalem processors. These are both 4 core CPUs, but the Intels utilize hyper-threading, so the OS sees 8 cores per CPU.  It wasn’t that long ago that the first thing you did with a hyper-threading-enabled […]

  Barry

  May 22, 2009

  servers, technical

  amd, barcelona, intel, nehalem