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Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500

Posted by michael on from the sunshine-lollipops-and-rainbows-everywhere dept.

Roman Hauptmann writes "Here's a review of Sun's newest single-CPU workstation based on the UltraSPARC IIIi processor. According to the review, the system barely performs on the level of a P4 1.8ghz machine yet it sells for several times the price. Despite that, the Blade series still brings value to those who do visualization and imaging."

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  1. Re:Performace by Billly+Gates · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Name one Solaris product that does not have a Linux or win32 port ready or in development?

    Also many of the top servers are switching to intel. They are faster and ones like IBM's can have many processors and can scale well. Unisys makes a 32 processor system. You can even upgrade hardware while the system is running!

    The argument is mute and is dieing.

    Sun is in big trouble.

    Also why have one large system when you can have clusters of thin racks? This is better and bring higher stablity. If one node fails, replace it.

    The central mainframe model is old and dieing and is being replaced by cheap distributed nodes.

    Out of the fortune 500, who needs a 64 or 112 processor system? Nobody.

    Sun provides no value from what you can get for cheaper. Especially with FreeBSD or Linux.

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  2. Re:Performace by mveloso · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't understand why it was so hard for a *nix guy to run on a Sun. It's not that hard, really. Having used all the majors (aix, hpux, solaris, bsd), sun is by far the easiest to get some arbitrary piece of code to compile/work.

    The biggest problem is trying to get Linux software to compile on anything else, because Linux developers use so many Linux-specific things...or don't really think about x-platform stuff like byte-ordering (more likely).

    And to be honest, I can't imagine what kind of problem you had with, of all things, gcc and the spec viewperf. I mean, it's gcc and some x11 app. Did you ask on one of the newsgroups? How about downgrading to 2.95.2? Did you use the sun gcc binaries, or did you build it with cc? etc etc etc.

    C'mon man, this is Solaris, a Real Life operating system. People run their businesses on this stuff. If you can't get something to compile on Solaris, you shouldn't be publishing the article at all(!).