Solaris 10 + dual-core Opterons = record breaking performance!
For many years now, I've been a SPARC bigot. The only machines I've owned (except for really old 8-bit stuff), until recently, were SPARC based (modulo my 68030-based Sun 3/80). But for all of SPARC's virtues, there's no denying that x86's (and especially AMD's) price/performance is fantastic, especially when mated to a high performance OS like Solaris. Sun recently released the latest benchmark results for their 4-way, dual-core AMD Opteron server, the V40z. This combination smashed the previous record; more details in the press release.
If this doesn't convince the nay-sayers that the "Slowaris" moniker no longer applies, nothing will.
posted by Rich Teer @ 18:30
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Interesting, last I heard Sun wasn't going to be supporting dual-core on the v20z and v40z lines, that was supposed to be on the next gen Galaxy boxes.. Oh well, they always said it was just a firmware problem, so I guess they fixed it since the rumors are placing 4-slot Galaxy boxes +6 months out.
I'm really curious about the Galaxy boxes. I watched one of the news videos at Sun's website that had McNealy talking to Bechtolsheim, and very briefly I thought I heard them say that the Galaxy architecture could support SPARC, too. If that's true, they must be cooking something really interesting--not just some rebranded system board.
When AMD first announced the dual-core chips they said that they should be compatible with existing systems. Even so, before the launch few people would guarantee what would or would not work.
I was involved with a cluster procurement last year. Part of the procurement was a presentation by the various companies and at least one had brought along representatvies from AMD. Even though the dual-core chips were designed to work in single-core sockets we couldn't get any of the vendors or AMD themselves to commit to this working for any particular system. They won't do that until they can test and show that it works.
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