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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. 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.

  2. 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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