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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
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...
- Tags: Blade servers, Databases, Enterprise software, Recruitment & Selection, Storage, PCI, P690, T5440, Oracle Real Application Cluster
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- The obligatory 'Victoria Falls' post
- For those who don't know, Sun's new T2+ machines extend the T2's CMT capabilities across multiple units to produce 16 and 32 core SMP machines capable of handling 128 and 256 concurrent threads respectively. Sun blogger Denis Sheahan provides a good overview of the current dual...
- Tags: T2, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Performance Opportunity, Network Technology, Networking, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, T2+, T2
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Hey, I love you too, guy
- Here's a comment from not so frequent contributor "SO.CAL Guy": murph_z you should be the last person calling someone a zealot. your the biggest zealot on zdnet. your blog is near the bottom of the list for a reason. ...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Intel Xeon, Performance Management, Processors, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2
- Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2It's all goodI think the real story of Intel Tigerton/Caneland and AMD Barcelona is the real arrival of x86 "Big Iron". Sure, it has existed for years (Sequent and DG, then IBM and Unisys), but now it is affordable and real. It has great...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, UNIX, T2, Intel Corp., RISC/Unix, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- Analysis of Sun's 'Niagara 2' UltraSPARC T2
- Sun Microsystems launched their brand new "Niagara 2" UltraSPARC T2 8-core CPU last Tuesday August 7th 2007 as the successor to the UltraSPARC T1 8-core CPU launched in November of 2005. During the launch Sun's executive VP David Yen took a few shots at big iron competitors IBM and Intel...
- Tags: T2, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Server, Analysis, Intel Corp., UltraSPARC T2, T2 CPU, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- The T2 and media reaction
- The UltraSPARC T2 announcements back on August 7th consisted of two separate stories. The first of these involved Sun's plan to sell it into the commodity processor market. Unfortunately almost nobody in the press understood either the announcement itself or where Sun's taking this, with the straight up treatment given...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Paul Murphy, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, UltraSparc T2
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- LinuxWorld 2007 goes green with Green Grid consortium
- Fred Stack - Emerson Network Power, David Douglas - Sun Microsystems, Rich Lechner - IBM, Colette LaForce - Rackable, Andrew Kutz - Burton GroupNext generation data center and green computing were common themes at LinuxWorld 2007 and the Green Grid panel brought many of these issues to light. Pictured above...
- Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mainframe, Server, Hardware, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- From Sun 1 to T5240
- Right about today, twenty-five years ago, a bunch of geeks at Stanford were firing up their companys first production walk - a half dozen "Sun 1" multibus boards designed to run Unisoft Unix on MC68000s. Not much later the design stabilised using Bill Joys first BSD...
- Tags: Sun, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
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