New Dual Core Opterons are out

[Strongbow]

I of course would recommend a PRIMEPOWER over a Sun box! ...as we have the following;

7 pipelines
2080 entry instruction TLB
High-throughput internal buses (multiple times faster than Sun's)
Sys Interface at 4.16GB/Sec (compared with only 2.4GB/S with Sun's US IV+)
Out of order execution
non-blocking cache
etc. etc.

Our single core SPARC64 2.16Ghz/4MB is way faster than their fastest dual core USIV+. We are releasing our dual cores later this year and Sun are partnering with us so we will both be using the same technology (still designed by us though).

[AMDave]

kinda put's the 8-way-SunV900 that they let me play with at work to shame.
Moore's law seems to be out-pacing IT expenditure these days (definitely on a personal level)
Ah well. It still gets the job done for the moment.

Thanks for opening that window for us.

[Strongbow]

I think you mean a V890. ;)

[AMDave]

Oops. I'll check again in the morning.

[Strongbow]

The press announcement is now out for my 8 socket blade (you heard it at AMDusers first mind you! ;) )

Thanks to Nflight for pointing it out...

Fujitsu readies eight-way blade server

By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com

The four-blade machine will use AMD's 2.6Ghz processors and is aimed at the top of the market

Fujitsu will begin selling technology next quarter that lets four dual-processor blade servers be linked into a single machine with eight AMD Opteron chips.

The new option, available in April or May, will be available with AMD's latest 2.6 GHz dual-core processors, said Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing for Fujitsu's US subsidiary, Fujitsu Computer Systems. The company announced the product in conjunction with the CeBit trade show in Germany.

The eight-way server is at the high end of the x86 server spectrum — especially given that AMD's dual-core chips have two processing engines apiece. IBM sells a 32-Xeon machine, the x460, and Sun plans an eight-processor Opteron server this year, but HP and Dell top out at four processors.


You can read more at http://uk.news.yahoo.com/060314/152/g6ehe.html[/url]

[AMDave]

I think you mean a V890. ;)

Oh my! That would have been nice.
8 x sparcv9 @ 900 Mhz under SunOS 5.4

This is why I love Linux & Solaris 10 so much.