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Basically, a 3GHz Woodcrest chip gives you 3 billion x 4 FP ops x 2 cores per second, or 24 GFLOPS theoretical peak (Rpeak number in Linpack) per socket in 64-bit precision.
So, two chips on a typical workstation or server board give you 48 GFLOPS Rpeak - almost as good as a quad-chip Montecito, or 50% better than dual-chip (four cores total) POWER5+.
With the rumoured improvements, Woodcrest is hitting 80% efficiency in Linpack, i.e. its measurable Rmax rate of execution will be four-fifths of theoretical peak, or over 38 GFLOPs in this case.
Now, the 2.8GHz dual-core Opteron grade, expected to be the one greeting Woodcrest, has some 88% efficiency per socket, but the Rpeak per clock is half. So, it is 2.8 billion x 2 FP ops x 2 cores per second, or 11.2 GFLOPs Rpeak per socket. For two-socket Opteron, the Rpeak then would be 22.4 GFLOPs, and Rmax some 19.8 GFLOPs - half that of Woodcrest two socket setup! Wow, AMD should have had K8L now, not in a year's time.
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