Workstations CPU David Josué Morales José Luis Micheri Marie Muñoz The Dinosaurs Electrical and Computer Engineering Department August 25, 2004

Outline Introduction Individual Processor Description Comparison Between Processors Conclusion

Introduction Our objective in this presentation is to inform the characteristics of the processors used for workstations by different companies and compare each one of them.

Intel Xeon 2.4-3GHz L2 1MB HT Extended Memory 64 Technology Demand Based Switching with Enhanced Intel Speed Step Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3) 124W $900.00

Intel Itanium GHz L2 256KB, L3 6MB Based on EPIC architecture Enhanced Machine Check architecture (MCA) Operating system support HP-UX, Linux 130W $1,300.00

Apple Power PC G5 1.25GHz L1 96KB L2 512KB 64 Bit Frontside bus up to 1.25GHz Dual independent frontside buses in dual processor systems Two floating-point units for high-speed double-precision calculations 24.5W $2,200.00

AMD Opteron GHz L1 128KB L2 1MB AMD64 technology instruction set extensions 64-bit integer registers Eight new 64-bit integer registers Eight new 128-bit SSE/SSE2 registers 55W~30W $800.00

Ultra SPARC IIi 500MHz L1 32KB L2 512KB VIS Instruction Set 64-bit SPARC V9 CMOS 0.18 micron process 6 layer AL metal 13W $1,400.00

Ultra SPARC III GHz L1 100KB L2 8MB (ext) 64-Bit SPARC architecture VIS Instruction Set 4-way superscalar 14-stage non-stable pipeline CMOS.13 micron process 1368 pin flip-chip ceramic Land Grid Array (LGA) 53W $6,500.00

Comparison Intel Xeon Intel Itanium 2 Apple Power PC G5 AMD Opteron Ultra SPARC IIi Ultra SPARC III Frequency2.4-3GHz GHz1.25GHz GHz500MHz GHz Size of CacheL2 1MBL2 256KB, L3 6MBL1 96KB L2 512KBL1 128KB L2 1MBL1 32KB L2 512KBL1 100KB L2 8MB (ext) Power Consu mption124W130W24.5W55W~30W13W53W Cost$900.00$1,300.00$2,200.00$800.00$1,400.00$6,500.00

Conclusion Based on the specifications found for each processor, we conclude that the most convenient one for power applications is the Power PC G5.

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