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Solaris/SPARC vs AIX/Power

Suppose someone high up in your organization announces that your data center choice between IBM's AIX on Power offerings and Sun's Solaris on SPARC line is more of a business decision than a technology decision - thus both abrograting and announcing the intended decision. What do you do? ...

Tags: Application, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM AIX 5L, Sun Sparc, IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, AIX 5L V5.1, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-17

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P570 vs T5220

As part of JesperFrimann's challenge with respect to the options available to a company with two aging p690s running Sybase, he suggested that: It's 256 threads per box on the T5440 versus 16 on the p550, and furthermore the power 550 supports shared pool virtualization.. so it...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., J2Ee, Processors, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Programming Languages, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Solaris vs AIX (2)

Solaris vs AIX (2)umm, dead wrong on everything, I thinkYes Solaris/Sparc does support partitioning, has for years. But ldoms are ldums - put in to sell to people who think this stuff is critical but not conceptually part of Unix.Containers are - they're an upgrade on the users/groups business.Basically one...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, IBM AIX, Unix, virtualization, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-18

Solaris vs AIX: It's the technology

From a technical perspective, of course, the right way to compare AIX to Solaris is to look at the technology. That might seem like it should be a lot of work but a long article by IBM's Shiv Dutta: AIX 5L Version 5.3: What's in it for you? on...

Tags: Disk, IBM AIX, IBM AIX 5L, Option, Sun Solaris, Dutta, Logical Volume, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-18

10 vs. 10

I had an incautious moment last week in which I said that 10 Sun Rays attached to one V890 would outperform 10 AIX workstations on engineering applications. Here's part of what Roger Ramjet had to say about that: My 10 AIX workstations WITHOUT A SERVER would...

Tags: IBM Corp., IBM AIX, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-10

Performance of the IBM System p5 520, 550 and 550Q

The IBM System p5 520, 550 and 550Q are the latest IBM POWER5 processor-based servers designed for commercial and high performance compute-intensive workloads. The p5-520 and p5-550 servers are 2-way and 4-way Dual-Chip Module systems running at 1.9 GHz while the p5-550Q is 4-way and 8-way 1.5 GHz Quad-Core Module...

Tags: Performance, IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, IBM AIX 5L, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2005-10-04

IBM eserver pSeries and AIX Performance Considerations

This paper outlines the results obtained from the analysis of AIX 5L v5.1 on maintenance level 5.1.15. This is designed to characterize the performance of AIX 5L v5.1 and, where possible, provide comparisons with previous versions of AIX. All testing was conducted in a laboratory environment. Note that actual performance...

Tags: Performance, IBM AIX, IBM eServer, IBM AIX 5L, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, UNIX, Software

White papers 2003-02-01