Hi, I've noticed that my while my Ultra 20 is a lot faster on graphics rendering, no surprise with an Nvidia GeForce 8400 card, that with the original single-core Opteron chip it was slower at multi-tasking than my SB 2000. I had to upgrade it to a 2.4Ghz dual-core Opteron before it became snappy enough for me to move off of my SB 2000. Overall I'm happier with my Ultra 20, but do miss OpenBoot and the ability to use all of my keys on my Sun keyboard. It's a shame that Sun stopped making SPARC workstations. While the Ultra20 looks like a Mac Pro wannabe, it's light and cheapish on the inside. It's a huge change in sturdiness and looks.. still think the light-up Sun logo on the SB2000 is cool as hell. Hell, I had to change out the fans and the CPU heat sink on my Ultra20 to make it as quiet as my SB2000.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: [email protected] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Dr. Robert Pasken <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, November 18, 2009 11:38:57 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards Although I respond to Alan appraently it didn't get posted here. I am comparing a cluster of Sun Blade 2000's with a cluster of Ultra-24's Even though the clock speed of the Ultra-24 is nearly 3 times that of the Blade 2000 the run times for WRF-DA are nearly the same (< 5% difference). Since I run WRF-DA a minimum of 4 times a day I have a lot of sample times to compare. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
