Strive Notes

There is the dawn of a new era in the Isle of Man. It is the dawn of the Quad-Core processor from Intel.

Actually, these processors were originally launched late last year, but to my knowledge they were not widely available in the Isle of Man until recently when more than 40 new servers based on Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 processors were installed at the Netcetera Dataport in Ballasalla.

According to Intel, they can mean a marked increase in performance of up to 50 per cent for some applications compared with dual-core processors. Company representatives say the benefits to graphics processing and scientific data analysis applications show the greatest boosts in performance.

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