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Re: Intel vs Sparc

From: Fabrice Bacchella <fabrice.bacchella_at_worldonline.fr.nospam.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 22:50:22 +0100
Message-ID: <a2d04vgspjumsh7jqdg23dqgk2scdmf1ro@4ax.com>


On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:20:29 GMT, Harvey <harveyb999_at_beliveau.cc> wrote:

>Welll.... let me clarify a bit. I am adding a server to an environment
>and the proposed box is a Sun V880. It's not a matter of replacing an
>existing OS with another, that box will be upgraded in the process of
>moving into a test server capacity while the new box moves into the
>production role. I'm looking for some 'quick and dirty' points to make,
>i.e., improved I/O performance, stability, etc.

Some high quality articles which explain why putting more than two processors in a machine on any Intel (not Itanium) or AMD processors is useless. And the cost of a V880 is rather close from the cost of an 8 processors PC-based computer.

http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=45000338
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000226
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000275
Received on Tue Feb 04 2003 - 15:50:22 CST

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