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Sun May Use Opteron Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-molten-core-is-pure-silicon dept.

Runnin_Rob writes "CNET Nets.com is reporting that Sun is likely (not definite, but likely) to start using AMD's Opteron in the near future. The article also discusses how Linux is pushing for greater acceptability of Solaris x86 because 'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.'"

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  1. Gas clouds... Sun... Opteron chips by questamor · · Score: 3, Funny

    After reading the previous article about gas clouds, space, and all kinds of astronomy stuff, I misinterpreted this title to mean someone had discovered good old Sol up there was powered by AMD Opterons.

    Took half a second for me to realise they don't quite run THAT hot.

  2. sounds concrete by toddhunter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sun is *likely* (*not definite*, *but likely*) to *start* using AMD's Opteron in the *near future* Did an accountant write this?

  3. Re:Solaris Vs. Mickeysoft. by bsharitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know if Solaris wants to be Microsoft but, Sun might.

  4. Re:Or maybe... by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 3, Funny

    I meant to say that Solaris wants to be Windows.

    That's easy to do. Just use a Sparc with dodgy l2 cache.

    --
    "We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
  5. Excerpt from a future Sun vs PC flamewar: by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 3, Funny
    You PeeCee guys don't know anything about the enterprise. Sun systems are worth every penny of their price. We have systems here that have been up and running 24x7 for over 7 years*. Speed isn't everything; these systems are rock solid and almost never fail**. As far as mission-critical transaction processing goes, these systems can't be beat at any price. They have the highest certified TPS of any system on the market***.

    *Not counting the times a careless sysadmin knocked the heatsink off of a CPU and fried the chip. We've been told that they are working on more foolproof mounting clips.

    **As long as you avoid the E25Ks with the Soyo Super 733FX3 mobos with the Via 8N933A eXtreeme chipsets. Those sux. Flakey as all shit. Oh, and make sure you only buy brand-name memory.

    ***The winning benchmarks were done using a system with custom aftermarket watercoolers running Opteron 4700++'s overclocked to 6974++. The transaction data was not completely free of corrupted bytes.