Ian Darwin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:34:38AM -0400, Steve Lecomte wrote: >> This January 2008 Intel whitepaper does a good job of laying out the >> facts. >> >> Software PBX Performance on Intel Multi-Core Platforms - a Study of >> Asterisk* http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/318862.pdf >> >> ...Using several different testing methods, we found that performance >> of the Asterisk* PBX application increased proportionally as more >> cores were made available to it. >> Given that the maximum call capacity >> on the 8-core system was almost seven times that of the single core >> case, we can conclude such increases in performance come without >> significant overhead. In fact, the increases seem to be almost linear >> as each multi-core configuration was tested. > > So these new Sun UltraSparc T2 systems with 128 threads in > hardware would be just the thing for transcoding up to 128 calls > concurrently. See http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5140/. > (That's 128 h/w threads in a 1U rackmount, btw).
Anybody got any pals at Sun? Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
