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Intel Xeon Hardware:
Processors: Two Intel Xeon 2.4Ghz 533Mhz Quad Pumped Bus [Socket 604]
Memory: 2GB Buffalo Technology PC3200 Registered ECC DDR [Samsung Chips]
Motherboard: Supermicro X5DP8-G2 Intel E7501 Dual Xeon
RAID Card: Adaptec 2010S 48MB Onboard Cache
Hard Drives: Fujitsu MAS 15,000rpm 36.4GB (2 in JBOD)
Power Supply: Antec 550Watt 24-pin Power Supplies
Chassis: Lian-Li Cases PC-73SLAMD Opteron Hardware:
Processors: Two AMD Opteron 242 (1.6Ghz) 800Mhz Hyper Transport Socket 940
Memory: 2 GB Buffalo Technology PC3200 Registered ECC DDR [Samsung Chips]
Motherboard: Tyan S2882UG3NR K8SPro AMD 8131/8111 Chipsets
RAID Card: Adaptec 2015S 48MB Onboard Cache
Hard Drives: Fujitsu MAS 15,000rpm 36.4GB (2 in JBOD)
Power Supply: Antec 550Watt 24-pin Power Supplies
Chassis: Lian-Li Cases PC-73SLComparable cost drove the choice of hardware. The cost of each server totaled around $2600 each in April, 2004. The Xeon was slightly more expensive due solely to a $15 per processor higher cost. All other components are identical or nearly so except the system motherboards. Finally, though the servers cost $2600 each for the experimenter to build by hand, nearly identical servers from IBM (Opteron) and Dell (Xeon) cost almost twice as much when purchased pre-made.
Other test computers specifications are found in the individual reports.
Experiment Team: