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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.


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"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/
> Pellonmäenraitti 5 B 12, FI-53850 LAPPEENRANTA

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

In article <c6osgs$ea3mh$1@ID-55633.news.uni-berlin.de>, Axel Neumann wrote:
> AFAIK all currently available UltraSPARC III server except the 280R do have
> the possibility to be equipped with UltraSPARC IV CPUs.

What's wrong with it?


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In article <slrnc8vq1d.r4.holm@maa3.cc.lut.fi>,
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

no yes yes already!

>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

Since the 280R is 'obsolete', get a 4 CPU V440 for the same amount of money,
connect it to a SE 3310 and make one big lump out of it and don't
be concerned with different stripes with different disks for this and that.

$0.02

Fredrik

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>Mr. Mikael Holm, +358505862479, +358445862479



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dol @ ce.chalmers.se

In article <c6p0st$b2l$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se>, Fredrik Lundholm wrote:
> Since the 280R is 'obsolete', get a 4 CPU V440 for the same amount of money,

Naa... V240 and V440 are cheap jokes, really More likely V490 w/ 2
U-SPARC IV CPUs for now. If and when webmail will be offered, two more
CPUs may be installed if horsepower need arises.

> connect it to a SE 3310 and make one big lump out of it and don't
> be concerned with different stripes with different disks for this and that.

I was after the best possible I/O and disk bandwidth. Besides incoming and
outgoing mail spools can be located on the mirrored system disks (plenty
of room if disks are 73GB).

How about T3E for disk subsystem?


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Mikael Holm wrote:

> In article <c6p0st$b2l$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se>, Fredrik Lundholm wrote:
>
>>Since the 280R is 'obsolete', get a 4 CPU V440 for the same amount of money,
>
>
> Naa... V240 and V440 are cheap jokes, really More likely V490 w/ 2
> U-SPARC IV CPUs for now. If and when webmail will be offered, two more
> CPUs may be installed if horsepower need arises.
>
>
>>connect it to a SE 3310 and make one big lump out of it and don't
>>be concerned with different stripes with different disks for this and that.
>
>
> I was after the best possible I/O and disk bandwidth. Besides incoming and
> outgoing mail spools can be located on the mirrored system disks (plenty
> of room if disks are 73GB).
>
> How about T3E for disk subsystem?
>
>



The T3 has been superseded by the 6120. You may want to look at the
6120 or 3510 instead.

On 28 Apr 2004 17:21:50 GMT
Mikael Holm <holm@lut.if.invalid> wrote:
>
> 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.

Might want to look into CommuniGate Pro for that, it does all that and
much much more in a single packet, is easy to admin and maintain.
But costs money.


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I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last
week. Time to die.

In article <slrnc8vq1d.r4.holm@maa3.cc.lut.fi>,
Mikael Holm <holm@lut.if.invalid> wrote:
[...]
>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.

Take a look at:

http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki...eCyrusHardware

-Seth

In article <20040501004342.4553bbe3@hel>, Barbie LeVile wrote:
> Might want to look into CommuniGate Pro for that, it does all that and
> much much more in a single packet, is easy to admin and maintain.

You forgot to say it's ported from Windoze. I have been end-user for few
years now and i don't like it. For example i could use more versatile
filtering (that's why there'll be Sieve available).

> But costs money.

....doesn't get any better...


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On 4 May 2004 06:42:55 GMT
Mikael Holm <holm@lut.if.invalid> wrote:

>
> You forgot to say it's ported from Windoze. I have been end-user for
> few

Its definetly not ported from windows.




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Barbie - Prayers are like junkmail for Jesus

I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last
week. Time to die.