Sun Fire V40z: Four Opterons in a 3U

@marcreichman what's insane is that you can get that much compute in blades now as well

@anshelsag haha yeah, too late, clicked the wrong button :)

Will be doing power and perf comparison between the old and new configs over the coming weeks. For now, it's bedtime

That was high-end back in 2006 - 8 cores in a 4U box, now we have 12 in a 2U box

Finally carried our old DB server up to the lab: four socket, dual-core Opteron 880 based HP ProLiant DL585 http://t.co/ftyi8BPF

@ozym4ndias @wilshipley @pmod not really, not internal at least. here's a hint: http://t.co/iv6wXn7I :)

@RandomMegaBytes the 512GB drive won't actually update to the latest firmware, but the 128/256GB drives are very quick

@pmod IVB gives you the same memory bandwidth as SNB, likely see DDR3-1600 in mobile

@wilshipley @pmod remember with Ivy Bridge TDPs don't actually go down, in 2013 that will change though...

@wilshipley @pmod The Pro won't go away entirely, but we will see a trend towards thinner notebooks in general.

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No Subject by tironside on Thursday, February 24, 2005

I agree with dwnwrd. the lom part of it is not great for remote console etc. the lom that the hp stuff has is pretty slick, with a java / web interface. The other main problem I have with this is it offers only raid 1 unless you buy a rather expensive add on card to do raid 5, kind of a teaser to put 6 drive bays and only let you do raid 1... It's a good start, but sun needs to make some changes before it can go mission critical. (raid and lom enhancements imho) while I like cli stuff, trying to get junior people to do complicated cli stuff is dangerous...

tironside

No Subject by dwnwrd on Thursday, February 24, 2005

I have some V20s and a V40. The service processor is pretty great except if you try to direct the Linux serial console to it then connect to the "serial over LAN" you'll get a flood of "serial8250: too much work for irq4" and a sleepy system.

http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=m...

dwnwrd

No Subject by Pontius on Thursday, February 24, 2005

I am curious what they are using when they benchmark the linux kernel compile times. They use the time command which spits out three times - real, user & sys. Are they using the sum of all these? If not, something is wrong. Because I did the same test, on the same 2.6.4 kernel using -j2 on a dual 2.8GHz Nocona system and I got a "real" time of 147s. That doesn't seem right because the Opterons are way faster at compilation. On the other hand, if I take the sum of the 3 times, I get 420s. Any thoughts?

Pontius

No Subject by jlee123 on Wednesday, February 23, 2005

RedHat 9, are you joking!!?? This has got to be a mistake, I can't understand how Sun could be shipping a 64-bit server with a 32-bit OS that's reached End Of Life. It's the equivalent of buying a workstation with Windows ME on it. Also, there was never a official port of RH9 to x86-64, the first x86-64 RedHat was RHEL3, the Fedora team later released FC1 x86-64. If Sun doesn't wish to pay licensing, they'd be better off shipping with FC2, FC3 or CentOS, a free rebuild of RHEL. This hardware isn't even going to begin to be utilized till it's running something more modern like RHEL4 x86-64.

jlee123

No Subject by JustAnAverageGuy on Wednesday, February 23, 2005

I could think of one use for these. :)

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=...

JustAnAverageGuy

No Subject by lauwersw on Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Standard rule for parallel make is to use 2xnumber of processors available. This gives most optimal results to hide disk latencies and seems to be correct in most cases I've seen.

lauwersw

No Subject by phaxmohdem on Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Call me what you will, but I would like to see some quad/dual Xeon scores to compare to as well (along with price tages for comparison :) )

And yes, If I were a rich man who knew what to do with that much computing power, I would have a dozen of these babies in my basement! Who needs women anymore once you have 48 Opteron x50 or x52 cpus humming at your disposal. And drool core? Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

phaxmohdem

No Subject by JustAnAverageGuy on Tuesday, February 22, 2005

That thing is a BEAST.

I have no idea what I'd do with a computer like that.

No Subject by MrEMan on Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Kristopher,

Thanks for the clarification about the reduced media tag.

E

MrEMan

No Subject by KristopherKubicki on Tuesday, February 22, 2005

RyanVM: The system used 850s.

Kristopher

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