when do you really need a 64bit cpu?
when do you really need a 64bit cpu? So... I pose this question. When do you really need a 64bit CPU <other than the obvious potential need of a megasever needing the address space>? Most of the folks I know that have an Opteron or Athlon64 do not have any 64bit specific software, except maybe the Linux kernel compile. The Duron and Athlon32/Barton both seem to be replaced by the single Sempron32.
On Saturday 02 April 2005 05:12 pm, hanasaki wrote:
So... I pose this question. When do you really need a 64bit CPU <other than the obvious potential need of a megasever needing the address space>?
By which you mean that you have so many Gigabytes of RAM that you are not even in the same state as the person writing the checks. Most of the servers I know of run at less than 20% CPU usage 99% of the time, especially web servers. An application or LTSP server might be different, or somethign that had to to a lot of database whacking. Generally, the problem with a server is that to get the IO performance you need you have to MASSIVELY overbuy on other hardware like the CPU. I would imagine that this is true of the 64bit architecture as well - it's not the CPU you're buying so much as the data bus.
On Saturday 02 April 2005 05:12 pm, hanasaki wrote:
So... I pose this question. When do you really need a 64bit CPU <other than the obvious potential need of a megasever needing the address space>?
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On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 17:12 -0600, hanasaki wrote:
when do you really need a 64bit cpu?
* large databases * files larger than 4GB * memory larger than 4GB * 3D games with larger depth of field And before you say you'll never need that: HDTV 1080i is 1,080 scan lines x 1,920 pixels/line = 2,073,600 pixels x 24-bits/pixel in YUV format / 8 bits/byte = 6,220,800 bytes/frame x ~25 frames/sec = 155,520,000 bytes/sec x 60 sec/min x 60 min/hour = 559,872,000,000 bytes for 1 hour HDTV quality home movie of your daughters birthday party recorded on your brand-spankin'-new HD home camcorder stored uncompressed for editing. That's 560 gigabytes. Other than that, you don't.
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