MISNews.com
features benchmarks comparing the AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon server CPUs
in a variety of statistical applications. MISNews.com contains only a sampling
of the experiments conducted here at Iowa State University.
Current Research Topics:
- AMD Opteron vs Intel Xeon performance
in:
- Current and Completed Projects:
- SAS: Extremely powerful
and widely used high-end statistical package (see link to the
right).
- MATLAB: Very versatile
and ubiquitous software package used in economics, engineering,
statistics and more (see link to the right).
- Microsoft Excel: Not
a true statistical package. Yet, Excel is widely used by schools
and corporations for statistical work. Current
Excel Report
- S-Plus: SPlusTS
Simulation Results and Report.
- Bases of Comparison for AMD Opteron
and Intel Xeon:
- Number of CPUs (one or two)
- Type of CPU: AMD Opteron, AMD
Athlon and Athlon 64, Intel Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 Xeon
- Amount of memory
- Number of single or multithreaded
programs running simultaneously
- Examination of multithreading
benefits in relevant software
