Intel introduced dual core desktop CPUs earlier this week. AMD does it today with server and workstation dual cores. We should see in the coming days more reviews. Too bad the LS-Dyna results were not ready for this review.
"Alan sent me this message a few days ago: “In one of our real-world...
HP xw9300 Workstation
-Dual Opteron upgradeable to dual core processors
-dual PCI Express(TM) graphics workstation with support for NVIDIA Quadro SLI(TM) (Scalable Link Interface)
-Up to 16 GB of DDR memory
-SATA, SATAII and Ultra 320 SCSI drives
I wish they test this in CATBench...
Cray, HP...
Good article at Anandtech reviewing the latest processors from AMD and Intel; CATIA, ProE, UG and SolidWorks benchmarks:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2342&p=17