Thanks! > Those cores are going to be sold to you largely on their memory bandwidth benefits for the top end of the Xeon range. That is, (A) bandwidth, byt

Thanks! > Those cores are going to be sold to you largely on their memory bandwidth benefits for the top end of the Xeon range. That is, (A) bandwidth, bytes moved per second or (B) total permitted memory size, say, 1/2 TB? My guess is that memory sizes of 1/2 TB require registered memory, that is, a register in the memory to simplify timing which can be challenging for such large memories, but the use of the register is an intermediate stop on the way to/from the processor and its cache(s) so, really, reduces bytes per second that might be achieved with, say, the simpler, consumer 1600 MHz, DDR3? Of course, other issues could include number of electronically independent channels to/from memory, address interleaved memory, etc.? > look seriously at IBM I looked at the article; IBM seems to be trying to sell hardware (again!). Okay. So far my software is all written for Windows, and my guess is that Windows (7 Pro or Server) doesn't run on IBM's Power processors? And even if Windows does run, lots of other software that runs on Windows and Intel x86 likely won't run on IBM Power?