Xeon : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary

by Roedy Green ©1997-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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Xeon: A line of Intel CPUs that spans quite a range of performance. The basic ones are a Pentium plus a SIMD unit for parallel processing. Unfortunately the Sun Java processors don’t exploit this ability. You would have to write your own code in C and hook it into Java with JNI to make use of it. Some Xeons are 32-bit only, and some also emulate the 64-bit AMD Opteron (or as Intel too embarrassed to admit it now produces clones, calls the EMT64T instruction set). The Opteron 64-bit set is quite different from Intel’s own Itanium 64-bit architecture. Some models support more one core (CPU hardware set) and they often use hyperthreading to simulate even more CPU cores than actually exist.
AMD
Celeron
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hyperthreading
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Itanium
Opteron
Pentium

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