Re: Intel vs Sparc

Fabrice Bacchella wrote:
>
> 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

Thanks! Those articles were very useful!! Harv Received on Wed Feb 05 2003 - 20:39:58 CET