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Originally posted by RoSs_bg2_rox:
Thoran, what kinda work do you do? Those Dual Xeons must be nice. I was thinking about getting a Dual Xeon setup for home, but then decided there isn't really any point since thye cost so much and I don't actually need it.
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Project Engineer... they actually pay me to play with this stuff. [img]smile.gif[/img] I do a bit of a lot of different things, hardware/software/systems design (primarily in the PC arena but also some DSP and FPGA based support systems), precision motion, project management.
The Dual processor boxes are for vision systems... processing really large amounts of image data as quickly as possible. All these systems end up having DSP or FPGA based front ends... because even dual processor boxes are pitifully slow for the data rates (many hundreds of megabytes per second), so I use dedicated hardware to cut the bandwith required to a point where a high end PC (or multiple pc's) can cope.
The Xeon boxes are nice but right now the top shelf stuff (raw performance wise) in the Windows world is Opteron. The benchmarks I've seen only give the Xeon's an advantage when the code is highly Intel-Optimized... and since I'm writing the code, I can optimize it for whichever platform I'm developing to... and that means NUMA Opteron.