Erik Magnuson <erik@cts.com> writes:

> Nice... Thanks for posting the information.

My pleasure, I hope to post some more benchmark results. I might get
forte 8 soon.

>
> Now for the fun part - Sun has announced the US-IV that "should" drop into
> the SB2000 - the 1.2 GHz version of that part should substantially
> outperform your 750 MHz SB1000 (and possibly breathe a bit of life into
> the SB2000). If that wasn't enough, the US-IIIi+ (US-IIIi done on the 90
> nm process) has 4 MB of on chip cache! This is supposed to have twice the
> performance of the current US-IIIi.

probably not supported in SB1000 even if I could justify the expenditure

>
> I also have a question for you (asking for your best guess and not
> anything that might be considered proprietary) - with Sun soon to support
> the full AMD-64 ISA with Solaris (and presumably with Sun's C compiler) -
> do you think that will have a positive impact on application avialability
> for Solaris??
>
> I'm guessing that porting Solaris to AMD-64 may end up helping Sparc sales
> more than hurting - figuring that the more boxes sold that run some form
> of 64 bit Solaris will encourage more people to write Solaris
> applications.

I think that there are grounds for optimism for all of Opteron, SPARC
and Solaris. That's why I own shares in Sun. My personal involvement
centers on the SPARC desktop market which is in a pretty bad way, but
for the server market I am greatly enjoying the current Itanium
"discomfiture". I truly think AMD64 has potential as a "disruptive
technology". It is capable of teaching Intel the "Intel lesson" (aka
"it's the software stupid").

Chris
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