On Feb 9, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:

BTW, the Opteron is about 10-times faster on a single job than
the SPARC, which is vintage 1996.

That's a bit of an unfair comparison.

The point of that Sparc machine is throughput, not latency.

Rattle the disks a little on that Pea Sea and the system performance turns to crud.

-a

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