General sun hardware questions
This is a discussion on General sun hardware questions within the Sun Solaris Hardware forums, part of the Solaris Operating System category; --> Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Frank Cusack wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 ...
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01-16-2008, 04:24 PM
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 Re: General sun hardware questions Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Frank Cusack wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:23:46 GMT Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Tim Bradshaw wrote: >>> >>>> My guess is that all the "traditional" SPARCs (III, IV, IV+ etc) are really >>>> dead now and the future will be Niagara-derived systems. >>> I don't think I'd go that far. From ehat I've seen, Rock and its derivatives >>> shoiuld be pretty inetersting... >> What is Rock? I somehow doubt it competes with Opteron. > > Niagara's big brother, targeted for the data centre, rather than the edge. > Very true... discussion was about a personal workstation (I think?). Of course, some have some pretty outlandish stuff at home.      |
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01-16-2008, 04:24 PM
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| Re: General sun hardware questions Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Frank Cusack wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:56:33 -0500 Chris Cox <notccox@notairmail.net> wrote: >>> Would be nice if Sun would release a BIOS for dual cores for the >> Would be nice if Sun would release an OBP Opteron system. > > :s/nice/extremely nice/ > > I would *love* for my X4200 to have OBP! > OBP that can boot ZFS... |
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01-16-2008, 04:25 PM
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| Re: General sun hardware questions In article <etmvgu$72q$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> wrote: > On 2007-03-19 20:49:10 +0000, Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> said: > > > What is Rock? I somehow doubt it competes with Opteron. > > It's the big-server multicore chip. I was including it in my > `Niagara-derived' set somewhat bogusly, which has lead to confusion: > sorry. I really should have said something like "CMT SPARCs". > > > > > As a largely uninformed person, I tend to agree with Tim. Seems to me > > it's either Opteron or Niagara and the rest will die. > > Neither have any serious support for big multi-CPU machines, I think - > I don't think Niagara has any at all, and (from limited knowledge) I > suspect no x86/x64 processor scales beyond 4 or 8 sockets. http://www.liquidcomputing.com/produ...rview_technica l_specifications.php Josh |
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01-16-2008, 04:25 PM
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| Re: General sun hardware questions On 2007-03-20 21:54:53 +0000, Josh McKee <jtmckee@rm-bogus-ac.net> said: > http://www.liquidcomputing.com/produ...rview_technica > l_specifications.php OK, I was not precise enough: You can obviously build arbitrarily vast shared-nothing machines with virtually any processor. That system, I note, supports up to 8-way SMP :-) --tim |
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