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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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  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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