Thanks for your input. I have yet to directly compare the two systems for the code I'm working on (weather prediction), something I'm looking forward to. Since

Thanks for your input. I have yet to directly compare the two systems for the code I'm working on (weather prediction), something I'm looking forward to. Since the dynamical processes are heavily memory bandwidth bound (stencil codes) I assumed that Power8 should beat Xeon handily, but I'll have to see I guess.