"Mikael Holm" <holm@lut.if.invalid> wrote:
> Sun offers some Sun Fire x800 w/ USPARC IV CPUs and labels them as x900.
> Does anyone know if 280R, V480 (or 880/1280) will become series of x90
> servers? Is there going to be Blade 3000 workstation???
>
> I believe there is significant difference between USPARC III and IV if
> using multithreaded applications like database systems.
>
> BTW. What is considered to be a minimum configuration for running e-mail
> server? IMAP/IMAPS/SMTP (Curys IMAP, postfix, spamassasin, sieve),
> ~800-1000 user accounts, ~150-250MB user quota, 30 000+ messages each day.
>
> So far considering 280R w/ 2x 1.2GHz UltraSPARC III Cu, 2GB RAM, 2x 73GB
> 10k RPM (mirrored, system disk) + external array on FC-AL (two mirrored
> pairs of 146GB 10k RPM disks striped to give ~300GB for mailboxes and a
> mirrored pair of 73GB 15k RPM disks for incoming and outgoing mail
> spools). I know it's probably overkill.
>
>
> --
> Mr. Mikael Holm, +358505862479, +358445862479
> mikael.holm(a)lut.fi, http://www2.lut.fi/~holm/
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Hi,

AFAIK all currently available UltraSPARC III server except the 280R do have
the possibility to be equipped with UltraSPARC IV CPUs.

Right now the following system have been announced:

US-III US-IV
V1280 E2900
F4800 E4900
F6800 E7900
F12K E20K
F15K E25K

Maybe we will hear more about others in June during the NC04Q2.

HTH,

Axel Neumann