I have learned from somebody that the CPUs are overheating and causing high
failure
rates. The cooling subsystem may need to be redesigned.
At 03:41 AM 3/5/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>i've done a little digging around, and the Sun blade100 seems less and
>less attractive:
>
>the 500-MHz ultrasparc IIe processor on it has 256K of L2 cache. it scores
>174 SPECint2000 and 182 SPECfp2000.
>
>by comparison, a "mere" 650MHz pentium III on an Intel SE440BX coughs up
>299 SPECint2000 and 215 SPECfp2000. and a 1.2GHz athlon processor on an
>ASUS A7V gets 458 SPECint2000 and 352 SPECfp2000 (more than twice the
>integer and almost twice the floating-point performance). these are
>official figures from www.specbench.org.
>
>so i guess clock-per-clock UltraSparcs still have better floating point,
>but the UltraSparc III currently maxes out at ~ 700MHz and costs an arm, a
>leg, and your left nut...
>
>
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