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by lupin..the..3rd
Thu Feb 26, 2015 5:23 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: windows 7 vs Linux performance
Replies: 13
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Re: windows 7 vs Linux performance

Another thing to consider, is that modern x86-64 architectures are all NUMA these days. How well optimized is the OS for NUMA? We know that Linux introduced significant NUMA performance improvements with the 3.13 kernel, and even more NUMA optimizations since then. These performance optimizations ar...
by lupin..the..3rd
Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:04 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Folding on Opteron 4284 "Valencia"
Replies: 7
Views: 1615

Folding on Opteron 4284 "Valencia"

Hello all, I have a new computer, Opteron 4284 "Valencia" with 8 cores @ 3.0 Ghz and 16 GB registered ECC memory @ 1333 Mhz. My operating system is Ubuntu Linux 11.04 AMD64. It's nicely faster than my old Opteron 1218HE but puts out a little more heat for sure. Is there some tips for setti...