Microsoft takes internal servers 64-bit
Posted by malebolgia on 29 April 2005 - 20:56 · 8 comments & 493 views
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#1 Posted by Nelsinho on 29 Apr 2005 - 22:40
- Good news, without doubt
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#2 Posted by Ideas Man on 29 Apr 2005 - 23:12
- Sound good about the MSN Messenger part, hopefully it's true, though I could actually see why it mighta been a problem in the past.
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#3 Posted by ainoa on 30 Apr 2005 - 04:04
- I still have to try several times before get login to my messenger. use the mess.be patch, maybe that's the problem
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#4 Posted by The-VOICE on 30 Apr 2005 - 11:07
- Not the best news about Windows XP x64 Edition. Hmmm...strange that the news blurb mentions problems with quality/stability of Windows XP x64 Edition, but the actual article simply mentions that the market isn't ready for it.
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#5 Posted by parkker on 30 Apr 2005 - 14:35
- Windows XP x64 is built on the same codebase as Windows 2003 x64. The big issue is that servers have a much more limited set of hardware to support and fewer drivers to worry about.
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#6 Posted by Help on 01 May 2005 - 04:27
- I think this '4-10' times more performance is BS. In the WinHEC keynote they said that they used the exact same machines with the exact same amount of ram. The only difference is the software. One being 32 bit windows and one being 64 bit windows. But when they were explaining why there was such a great performance increase, they sadi that it was the memory.... wait doesn't both machines have the same anoutn of ram?? What is the real reason for the performance increases?? Are they using Itanium2 severs?? or am I just confused about x64??
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#6.1 Posted by sphbecker on 02 May 2005 - 21:16
- A 64-bit OS is able to manipulate 64-bit chucks of memory in a single instruction, so that is a big benefit for starters. Plus 32-bit versions of Windows really do not address more then 2 GB of memory well; if you have more then 2 GB of memory it gives EVERYTHING over 2 GB to the kernel, which is normally a lot more then it needs or can even use.
On top of all that, yes you can have more then 4 GB of total real memory!
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#7 Posted by ~*McoreD*~ on 02 May 2005 - 07:24
- The BIG numbers are impressive.
Danny Beck, Microsoft Windows client senior product marketing manager, confirmed on Friday that servers running the company's Web site and MSN Search and Messenger applications had been migrated to the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003. "Our MSN search engine is actually built on several thousand systems running the x64 version of Windows," Beck said. In addition, "the entire Microsoft.com site has been migrated, and we serve 30 million unique visitors every day."
Beck said performance of the MSN Messenger servers has improved 10 times since they went 64-bit. The servers handle about 70 million instant-messenger users. However, while Microsoft is keen to tout the server version's stability, the desktop version is not as mature. Greg Sullivan, a lead product manager in the company's Windows unit, told CNET News.com that the desktop version "is not quite there" in terms of quality, and even hardware makers admit there might be issues
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