[...] > > Now, if you got here reading this far, you might think I'm really bashing > Sun hardware and don't like SPARC. But the truth is, IF there were Sun V240s > out there for a *sane*, decent price, I'd load up on them in a heartbeat. As > they are still outrageously overpriced, even the used models on ebay, I turn > back to TYAN for my computing needs. And hey, Solaris runs just as fast if > not faster on those TYAN multicore Opteron systems
Yup, I read what you wrote. I got the gist of what you said: SPARC is overpriced for what it does. x86 is the saner option. What is your opinion on Sun's x86 offerings ( esp the Sun Ultra 20M2 ) ? > I also wouldn't mind having a T2000 in my rack, despite dismal single > thread performance. Why? Because that would be that perfect compile server > for all my SPARC based systems (yes, I actually do have quite a bit of SPARC > hardware). I've used T2000s before and I can really get nice performance out > of them for compiling with Sun Studio 12. But, at $9,000 for the most basic > (and useless) configuration, and around $20,000 for a *sane* configuration, > I'll be damned before I fork out that kind of cash for a bunch of processed > sand and iron put together! >
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