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4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed

Posted by samzenpus on from the compile-faster dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Anandtech has a pretty thorough analysis of Sun's V40z 4-way Opteron server that fits in a 3U. Among some of the more noteable benchmarks include a 2 minute, 30 second Linux 2.6.4 kernel compile! Who would have thought only a few years ago that Sun would be the new champion of Linux and AMD?"

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  1. I suspected by geekee · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Who would have thought only a few years ago that Sun would be the new champion of Linux and AMD?"

    I knew that the ultraSPARC was dead a few years ago. Not surprised at the current Sun situation.

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  2. 4-ways are nice and all by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: 5, Funny

    But for years I have been looking for a 3-way. My wife, is uh, not very compatible.

  3. Hmmm by Neil+Blender · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reading through the benchmarks, I see they compiled KDE under gentoo in just under 17 weeks. I'm impressed.

    1. Re:Hmmm by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

      You think that's bad? You notice the benchmark is for 2.6.4, but kernel.org is at 2.6.11-pre4-mm1. That tells you how long it took to do the download on this box.

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  4. Re:Solaris and AMD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    My Super Mario 64 has a 64 bit kernel too
    big deal

  5. Re:I love the combination... by TheKarateMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah... umm... I'm *pretty* sure Gentoo *is* Linux...

    Don't want to start a disto war here or anything, but I think we can all agree that Linspire is by *far* the best, anyway.

    P.S.(Don't shoot me, I'm just kidding, I use Debian.)

  6. Re:I love the combination... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    you gain much more than 0.1% of performance compiling a linux kernel

    I would say it is actually less than 0.1%. It's just pure placebo

  7. Re:I smell ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just be careful how the wind blows or you'll also take a quick shower. On a serious note, only after trying to purchase some property in JC and then moving back to NY from JC I realized what an overpriced, fucked up dump east NJ is. Especially when considering that east NJ was a land-filled swamp (Hamilton's project I think) and now has real estate taxes higher than Park Avenue's, and is controled by incestuous bureaucratic rednecks.

    (just an idea, JC real estate tax is ~$2000/1000ft^2 per year based on property value from 6 years ago, when property value was 1/3 of current market value)