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- AIX vs. Solaris (4)
- AIX vs. Solaris (4)Sun Ultra 24 WorkstationSun's first Intel based workstation with QUAD core starting at $995.http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/ultra24/index.xmlbetter than a PC - but still wrongAs a sysadmin I want my desktop to replicate the production system as closely as possible. i.e if I run on SPARC, I want a sparc desktop.That's...
- Tags: workstations, network technology, operating systems, unix, ibm aix, x4500, sun microsystems inc., t2, workstation, sun solaris, ibm power6, storage
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
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- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and widePublically?"Well, since then the company’s stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn’t seem to be willing to talk about the problems with its GPUs publically."Publically is not a word. Publicly is.That aside, Nvidea is playing the blame game and not...
- Tags: nvidia corp., gpu, blame, supplier
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- What's next for the MacBook Air?
- Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...
- Tags: apple inc., apple macbook, battery, disk, engineering, hardware, intel corp., jason d. o'grady, mba, mlc, notebooks, notebooks & tablets, solid state disk, processor
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- The SunFire X4500: Addressing New Workloads with a New Blend of Server and Storage
- This IDC report shows how the digital world has become more varied over time, and the types of data that must be stored as part of regulatory and compliance standards encompass more formats than ever before. Video images, medical images, document images, audio files, and large data sets generated by...
- Tags: sun microsystems inc., workload, server, storage, hardware
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Solaris vs AIX: Price/performance
- IBM's newest AIX products feature the Power6, Sun's the UltraSPARC T2. It probably makes sense, therefore, to base a data center hardware cost comparison as much as possible on these two technologies. Comparable scaling is a key issue, but there's enough consistency about the benchmark results both...
- Tags: t2, sun microsystems inc., ibm aix, ibm power6, ibm corp., data centers, sun solaris, unix, operating systems, network technology, storage, hardware, data management, software, networking, paul murphy
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- The UltraSPARC T2 and file security
- Almost two years ago I predicted that Sun's then pending T1 and subsequent T2 CMT machines would offer throughput levels roughly comparable to x86 machines producing the number of cycles you'd get multiplying Sun's CMT megahertz by their thread count -i.e that a T1 would produce roughly the throughput...
- Tags: network technology, data centers, processors, networking, paul murphy, security, t2, t1, sun ultrasparc, rack, data center, performance
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs Solaris
- I think we all know which of the three major Unix variants has the largest number of paid up licenses for non embedded use: it's the one we usually hear least about, the Darwin BSD variant used by Apple to host the MacOS X shell.There's equally little doubt about...
- Tags: unix, operating systems, servers, paul murphy, bsd, sun microsystems inc., sun solaris, linux, server
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Sun's decade of storage woe
- Sun recently shifted engineering responsibility for the Pirus-based 6920 to Hitachi, a prelude to discontinuing the product. Thus closes a chapter on another Sun storage acquisition.The storage group's acquisition history is chilling. In the last 12 years they've bought a number of companies for something on the order of a...
- Tags: sun microsystems inc., storage
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- Sun's decade of storage woe
- Sun recently shifted engineering responsibility for the Pirus-based 6920 to Hitachi, a prelude to discontinuing the product. Thus closes a chapter on another Sun storage acquisition.The storage group's acquisition history is chilling. In the last 12 years they've bought a number of companies for something on the order of a...
- Tags: sun microsystems inc., storage
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- Targeting development for future hardware
- Recent products from IBM and Sun have brought diversity, and thus choice, back to the hardware market. In particular, developers with hot ideas a year or so away from marketability now face some difficult choices that simply werent there before. Imagine a product idea, lets call it "Canary",...
- Tags: development, general
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Building your own supercomputer
- Suppose you wanted to build your own super computer -one capable of running realistic problems using standard "codes" in areas like bio-computing, climatology, or geophysics - what would it take? The currently favored approach to this is to get as many Opteron cores as you can pay for, rack...
- Tags: cell, grid, storage, supercomputer
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Heads I win - tails? not my problem
- Imagine that youve magically become head of IT at a major University: youve got 65,000 students and 15,000 faculty expecting reliable email services and three real choices about how to provide it: Microsofts Exchange Server 2003 Benchmarks data suggests that a highly tuned, four machine, dual...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market position
- Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market positionyes they had choicesFreescale, PA Semi ... and the outlier: SPARCWow ...Talk about smoke and mirrors ...But still, did Apple really have a choice, but to move to Intel? If not, then why complain about it?Careful Murph, you don't want to go against the...
- Tags: apple mac os x, desktops, servers, operating systems, using amd, apple inc., apple xserve
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market position
- When Apple's Xserve first came out it stood head and shoulders over the competition on every measure applicable in its markets - markets that were defined by the entertainment, education, and pre-press industries and therefore rewarded extensive optimization for image and streams processing. Thus Apple's Xserve was the first machine...
- Tags: general, apple
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- The SIMPLICITY of ACHIEVING HIGH-END PERFORMANCE at a LOW COST
- It probably has never been more straightforward to set up SAS Intelligence Storage to achieve high-end performance at such a low cost as using the combination of hardware and software explained in this paper. This paper discusses the test results of SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (one component of SAS...
- Tags: performance, sas institute
- White papers 2006-11-06
- Disk drive price change
- Disk drive price changeAre we still using SCSI drives?I've moved onto SATA drives myself. Are people still using SCSI, if so why?Reading Cringley now eh?He does come up with some doozies - but he always explains himself well. This "hard drive" proposal is basically SyQuest v3, but it sure sounds...
- Tags: us3, disk drive, nothing, scsi, serial ata, disk, processor
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
- The good old days - are back?
- The good old days - are back?Faster disks - how so?They still run at 7200 RPM (10k or 15k for HP SCSI). They still have the same number of platters and heads. A 500Gb drive takes about 500 times longer to load and unload completely as a 1Gb drive. It's...
- Tags: sun solaris, unix, operating systems, sun microsystems inc., niagara-2, disk, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2006-09-11
- The good old days - are back?
- In the good old days you got system wide performance and reliability for data intensive applications by using as much directly connected disk as you could afford -which, at $2,100 for a 104MB disk in about 1990, wasn't that much. Nevertheless the need for larger spaces existed and what...
- Tags: thumper, disk
- Blog posts 2006-09-11
- Photo: Sun's server-storage hybrid
- The Sun Fire X4500 system, code-named Thumper, accommodates 48 hard drives and has two AMD Opteron chips.
- Tags: sun fire, amd opteron, sun microsystems inc., advanced micro devices inc., photograph, hard drive, chip
- Image galleries 2006-07-26
- Sun and Greenplum claim price-performance win with data warehouse appliance
- Sun and Greenplum introduced a data warehouse appliance that uses the new Sun Fire X4500 server formerly known as Thumper and Greenplum's massively parallel distribution of PostgreSQL, Bizgres MPP. Here's what the two companies claim about the appliance:Two orders of magnitude better price- performance over competitionPerformance boost of 10 to...
- Tags: greenplum
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
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