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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. Specs by zerocool^ · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Sun's site:

    http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v40z/index.jsp

    * Linear Processor Scalability
    * Lights Out Management (LOM) with integrated service processor
    * Redundant, hot-swap power and cooling
    * Supports existing 32-bit x86 OS and applications

    * Up to 4 AMD Opteron 800 Series processors
    * Up to 32 GB
    * Up to six hot-swap Ultra320 SCSI disks

    - Solaris 10 on x64
    - Solaris 9 HW 4/04 OS or later for x86 Platforms
    - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for AMD Opteron
    - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
    - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
    - SUSE Linux 9 Professional (Community Edition)
    - Microsoft Windows 2000 (WHCL-certified)
    - Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (WHCL-certified)

    The price, listed at http://www.sun.com/emrkt/opteronpromo/product.html
    shows the server @ $5945, which imho is quite a reasonable price for this kind of heavy hitting hardware.

    I've always had a thing for sun hardware. It's just... sexy.

    ~Wx

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  2. Re:Rebadged Newisys 4300? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's because there is none.