Success report: installing pure64 on a dell poweredge 1850
Hello,
I had the chance to test the installation of pure64 on a dell poweredge
1850 with "nocona" xeons, and I only can say: it works like a charm.
This system will presumably run sarge for amd64 as soon as it is
released.
Installation was as usual, after pointing the installer to alioth and
selecting the unstable distribution everything went as intended.
BTW, there was no sign on the box, the system itself or the bios splash
screens this is an em64t system, nothing. I first expected the kernel to
stop complaining it does not support long mode, but it really booted.
If rumours are true and Intel is shipping only em64t pentium4 and xeon
CPUs, the amd64 port will become the most important one in a medium
term.
a small synthetic benchmark (http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/bmark.html):
(dual 2.8GHz xeon, 1M L2 cache 1GB ram)
gcc-3.4 -O3 -s -static -m32
BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)
TEST : Iterations/sec. : Old Index : New Index
: : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT : 775.36 : 19.88 : 6.53
STRING SORT : 98.76 : 44.13 : 6.83
BITFIELD : 3.4244e+08 : 58.74 : 12.27
FP EMULATION : 68.665 : 32.95 : 7.60
FOURIER : 16822 : 19.13 : 10.75
ASSIGNMENT : 23.086 : 87.85 : 22.79
IDEA : 1591.1 : 24.34 : 7.23
HUFFMAN : 1278 : 35.44 : 11.32
NEURAL NET : 18.785 : 30.18 : 12.69
LU DECOMPOSITION : 906.6 : 46.97 : 33.91
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX : 38.642
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 30.042
Baseline (MSDOS*) : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler
10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
C compiler : gcc-3.4 (unknown version)
libc : unknown version
MEMORY INDEX : 12.406
INTEGER INDEX : 7.982
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 16.662
Baseline (LINUX) : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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gcc-3.4 -O3 -s -static -m64
BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)
TEST : Iterations/sec. : Old Index : New Index
: : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT : 923.36 : 23.68 : 7.78
STRING SORT : 118.88 : 53.12 : 8.22
BITFIELD : 3.4425e+08 : 59.05 : 12.33
FP EMULATION : 125.88 : 60.40 : 13.94
FOURIER : 12468 : 14.18 : 7.96
ASSIGNMENT : 22.785 : 86.70 : 22.49
IDEA : 2697.5 : 41.26 : 12.25
HUFFMAN : 1619.6 : 44.91 : 14.34
NEURAL NET : 16.017 : 25.73 : 10.82
LU DECOMPOSITION : 507.28 : 26.28 : 18.98
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX : 49.428
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 21.244
Baseline (MSDOS*) : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler
10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
C compiler : gcc-3.4 (unknown version)
libc : unknown version
MEMORY INDEX : 13.163
INTEGER INDEX : 11.747
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 11.783
Baseline (LINUX) : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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Kind regards
Frederik Schueler
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