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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. Rebadged Newisys 4300? by Master+Bait · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not that that is a bad thing, but I cannot see any difference between the V40z and this.

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    1. Re:Rebadged Newisys 4300? by ArkiMage · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yeah.. We have multiple Newisys 2100's and recently bought Sun 20z's which are the same thing. Cheaper as Sun than Newisys as well. The 4300 and 40z are identical as well. Oh, and Newisys will NOT offer firmware on their website. Sun does...

  2. Fast Kernel Compile by AFCArchvile · · Score: 4, Interesting
    2 minute, 30 second Linux 2.6.4 kernel compile!

    That's pretty fast compared to what I've done: compiling 2.4.27 in Gentoo on a Sun Ultra 2 (2 x 300 MHz UltraSPARC). It took over 90 minutes, and that was without the USB and Bluetooth sections of the kernel, since there's no way the Ultra 2 can make any use of either.

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  3. Re:Since when... by Lehk228 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since when... (Score:1)
    the kernel compilarion speed is a benchmark factor for a server hardware.

    because it is something that many home users as well as server admins have actually performed on various machines and gives a better measure of performance to people than some arbitrary benchmark score.

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  4. Re:Champion of Linux? by nonmaskable · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the "driver deal", SCO gave Sun options to buy a bunch of SCO stock at $1.83 per share. This was shortly before SCO's big linux license FUD PR campaign started, and the stock went over $20/share shortly thereafter. Combine that with McNealy gloating about having the only legal version of linux right after the "driver deal" and there's a lot more here than a conspiracy theory.