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Sun Considers Opteron

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the workstations-on-the-cheap(er) dept.

Sanjay writes "Official from Sun spokesman. Sun is considering using AMD's Opteron chip in a server it expects to deliver to the market shortly. Intead of fighting Win of Wintel (like Redhat is doing), Sun can choose to fight both with Linux AMD's servers and also fight with HP/IBM as Itanium is anyway a non starter. Sun can rise again! "

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  1. Dupe, I think. by dschuetz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here

    Whatever happened to those of us with acess to TMF being able to submit notice for pending dupes? I tried, but there's no easy way to figure out how to send a note to the editors. I still like the idea (naturally, since I brought it up) of a little form on TMF stories with the ability to submit dupe notification right then and there.

    Of course, if I'm wrong, then, fine. :)

  2. Serious Dupe Problem on Slashdot by elliotj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really don't know what Slashdot editors do, but if they're not reading the site on a daily basis, couldn't they at least search the damn site before they post to see if someone has beaten them to it?

    It's getting pretty rediculous. It wasn't always this bad.

  3. Idea for Slashdot by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Make it a requirement for the people that approve posts that those people regularly read slashdot.

    Hell, I only spend a few minutes a day reading slashdot, and I have no trouble instantly spotting the dupes, so it wouldn't be too onerous a burden on your editors, would it?

  4. Re:difference from a PC by TheLink · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Assuming you built the machine right so that no single board is a single point of failure, you hit the next problem: If a CPU or memory module were to actually fail during runtime, it is still just as likely to cause an OS crash. "

    Not if you buy a mainframe class system from IBM or the other genuine high end vendors, which have things like redundant CPUs running the same code. If there's an error, the CPUs retry. If still bad, then the offending CPU or module is shutdown.

    Consider Fujitsu if you still like SPARC, but want stuff like instruction retry.

    http://www.ftsi.fujitsu.com/services/press/illum in ata_10-11-02.pdf

    Look at the IBM mainframe culture and history:
    http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/4 35/spainho wer.html

    Sun is a mainframe wannabe with decent marketing. They really aren't that far ahead of Dell if you look at the big picture.

    Sun SPARC is actually lagging behind Fujitsu SPARC in performance and reliability.

    Not saying Sun is dead or dying. But it doesn't look good does it?

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