Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> > >> SPARC is a technology owned by Oracle. The only SPARC boxes you can buy on > >> eBay are relics, and I'd wager my Samsung Galaxy S2 phone with it's dual > >> core 1GHz ARM chip can outperform all of them. Power is now incredibly > >> expensive, and the economics of running old equipment make no sense what > >> so ever. If you buy an old SPARC box on ebay for $500, it's going to cost > >> you more than that per year to run it. > > > > I highly doubt your 1GHz dual core ARM can match a 64-way 450 MHz E10K, > > although its probably a lot closer than I'd like to admit :-) And that's a > > system that is very very old indeed. There are some powerful (especially > > in their day) SPARC systems still out there. > > There are, and there is the legacy application argument. But these machines > are machines that use kilowatts - an E10k can use 13kW. In London datacenter > power cost that's around $6k/month. For one months power budget you can get > an Intel box that outperforms it quite comfortably. There are obviously > newer, less power hungry boxes, but I'd bet this "1 months power budget gets > you a comparable Intel box" rule of thumb probably holds true for most of > them!
You seem to miss, that compiling Schillix-ON on Intel/AMD based HW takes 18 Ghz hours while compiling the same on Sparc only takes 16 GHz hours. So Sparc is still more effective per clock cycle than intel/amd. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
