More joy for the Intel camper!!!

The review of the latest server side processors :Xenon (the new Woodcrest core based 5100 series) and Opteron ("Italy") provides every reason for the intel camper to rejoice.

Alas! What more reason do I need to celebrate than that Intel has "regained the throne for the best procesor(s)"

The Core 2 duo architecture is doing wonders for Intel...no hyperbole this.Lower power consumption ,more instructions per cycle . everything that one would want from a processor upgrade. The new Xenon's based on this are named Woodcrest as opposed to the previous version of the Xenon codenamed Dempsey. These will use Socket 771 (also called Socket J).

Technical specs apart ,the new Xenon's continue Intel's legacy of number crunching superiority in Video and Audio processing applications and infact gains from the single cycle SSE. The only downside about this continuing legacy being that the memory throughput cannot match that of AMD 's architecture.

But come to power consumption and behold the magic. The Xenon shows its main advantage under load and races ahead of all competition leaving the Opteron fuming (literally...and AMD along with it,probably!!!) behind.It consumes only about half of what the Opteron does!!!

The only thing strange with this release is that it only one month since Intel has released the "Dempsey" processors. the explanation might be that the Woodcrest might have been ready ahead of schedule and Intel thought it would be a safe bet to release it ahead of the schedule release of the newer Opteron X4 which is supposed to have an L3 cache.

As with the Core 2 Duo , the only thing that can be said about the new Xenon's is that Intel has come up with a winner again and AMD has a real challenge especially that there are the Quad core Xenon's(the mighty Clovertown) yet to be released.

All that I'll be doing though is keep my fingers crossed waiting for the Clovertown(I'm already drooling over the thought of the quad-cores ,including the for-the-desktop Kentsfield) and also keep this blog updated...

Till the Clovertown walks the ramp...

When I'll have no time but to re-read the specs and the performance...

To trust my eyes and trust the guys...

Who have reviewed...

The Beauty of Randomness

Er, that was just what I was feelin.And also an idea of what is coming up. Hmmm...I'll take some time for the next post anyway...

I'm not having much time.Have to complete all the lab work(lazy guy that I am...there is so much pending work).And to make matters worse, Diwali .

Thats it for now and also coming up is an update of my profile thanks to some serious pressure from a great friend.

@The Great Friend:Sure.

Ahaan! My nerd score

Ahem! All readers ,Naveen Kumar M proudly presents his nerd score!!!



And nerdtest.com said "All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!
2% scored higher (more nerdy), and 98% scored lower (less nerdy). "

That was awesome!!!

The Quiz

Do see the end even if you dont read through the post

The day started at 11:45 am. I overslept and missed out the NCC class.That was nothin to say of the things to come.

Realized that there was a quiz at 2:30pm and immediately set out to prepare. Finished the regulars and went to the mess.

It was 1:30 pm already. Set out to Amit's(The Gen Sec for Technology for our Hall) room expecting to find the team members ready. Damn! The guys who were supposed to be there by 1:00 pm didnt turn up even by then(That I was no different is another issue). Countless calls couldnt reach Neeraj(another participant). It was 2:00 and we decided to go to his room. The breakthrough ! Shameless to call it that anyway.

Found all the guys and we set off.

Enroute the auditorium (where the quiz was held), the expectations!!!

Our Gen Sec.(who you could call as our manager) was not expecting much though he said that not finishing last would be the qualification for earning our refreshments(read: treat)!!!

Hmm....not a tough task...I thought.

The quiz began on time and we were scoring briskly and by the time 40 of the 80 questions were over, we were third.Smiling.

Then the stagnation started...the score just wouldnt move forward.We dropped to 8th...there were eleven teams,one from each hall.

An objection to our answer to the question "What was codenamed `Xenon`?" by two teams didnt help either.The questions kept coming and we continued leaving them unanswered.We couldnt help it. The team before us was so strong...they came third finally...the infinte bounds rule was hurting us pretty well by now.A reversal in direction didnt help either.We were sandwichec between two strong teams.The other team came second!!!

We finished off with 50 and a seventh place.Pretty good for the freshers, we comforted ourselves and left the place. Our refreshments were ready and we were more than happy to have them(geeeeeeeee)

Pretty good day to finish off. The result was not to my expectations but not everything goes yourself always ,right???

I think in the previous post I think I spoke of the need for a boost to self confidence and it did happen,I did get selected.This must be obvious by the fact that I went to the quiz but there is always something for the first-timers.

And what better way to end this post than by quizzing you...and no cheating...answer the question without searching on the net.

"What is codenamed Xenon?"

Post your answers in the comments section.

Happy quizzing ;-)

Revamping the Template

Whoa........

This is getting boring for me.The same old template and the look of the blog.Seems like I'll add some spice,more content in the side bar and whatever it takes.

There is so much to write about today but so lil time.It's almost 12 and time to leave this place(The Comp Centre)....May be I'll put it up later.

And this is exclusively for the guy from Sind,Pakistan who seems to be a regular visitor to the site.Excuse me for putting this message on a post but couldn't find any other way of contacting you.
Could you give me your mail id or any other way I can contact you?And,thankz for visiting.