4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed

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?"

Comments

Here's a pic of the V40Z CPU

[arothstein]

SHOVED UP MY ASS!

*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_
g_______________________________________________g_ _
o_/_____\_____________\____________/____\_______o_ _
a|_______|_____________\__________|______|______a_ _
t|_______`._____________|_________|_______:_____t_ _
s`________|_____________|________\|_______|_____s_ _
e_\_______|_/_______/__\\\___--___\\_______:____e_ _
x__\______\/____--~~__________~--__|_\_____|____x_ _
*___\______\_-~____________________~-_\____|____*_ _
g____\______\_________.--------.______\|___|____g_ _
o______\_____\______//_________(_(__>__\___|____o_ _
a_______\___.__C____)_________(_(____>__|__/____a_ _
t_______/\_|___C_____)/______\_(_____>__|_/_____t_ _
s______/_/\|___C_____)_<===>_|__(___>___/__\____s_ _
e_____|___(____C_____)\______/__//__/_/_____\___e_ _
x_____|____\__|_____\\_________//_(__/_______|__x_ _
*____|_\____\____)___`----___--'_____________|__*_ _
g____|__\______________\_______/____________/_|_g_ _
o___|______________/____|_____|__\____________|_o_ _
a___|_____________|____/_______\__\___________|_a_ _
t___|__________/_/____|_________|__\___________|t_ _
s___|_________/_/______\__/\___/____|__________|s_ _
e__|_________/_/________|____|_______|_________|e_ _
x__|__________|_________|____|_______|_________|x_ _
*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_

Important Stuff: Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) If you want replies to your comments sent to you, consider logging in or creating an account.

Important Stuff: Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) If you want replies to your comments sent to you, consider logging in or creating an account.

Important Stuff: Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) If you want replies to your comments sent to you, consider logging in or creating an account.

I love the combination...

[ajaf]

... Linux and Opteron...
Better, Gentoo and Opteron...

The combination is killer.

Re:I love the combination...

[ajaf]

Yeah yeah, but you don't compile any distribution from scratch, do the test with gentoo, then with another distribution, and come back later.

Re:I love the combination...

[ajaf]

"Spend your life compiling Gentoo kernels for that 0.1% performance gain"

Gentoo is not a kernel, and you gain much more than 0.1% of performance compiling a linux kernel. You stupid anonymous.

Re:I love the combination...

[Justin205]

Yes, it will finish compiling in a reasonable amount of time... Maybe about as long as it takes a normal system (say, Debian) to install on a Pentium...

Curious

[iamnotacrook]

In terms of multi Opteron processor support, FreeBSD would have been a more sensible choice. Its a shame that Sun didnt consider that option, simply because Linux has better value as a sales pitch.

HERE's what I'M THINKING.....

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

What does Roland Piquepaille think about this??

Mourn the Advent of the Opteron

[SoupIsGood Food]

This isn't a triumph. It's a travesty. It's a dangerous thinness, the latest symptom of a mass extinction that will take computing a long time to recover from, if it ever does.

If this trend continues, you will only have the option of running your choice of OSS Unix or Windows on x86. There is no future for any other sort of chip... now that Sun's all but given up, all that's left is IBM making chips for Apple and the biggest of the big iron. Even Palm and ARM is winking out, one licensee at a time...

If you're about to invent a better way to do computing on the desktop or in the server room, don't bother. The barriers to entry are now insurmountable.

Welcome to the new Wintel world. Linux is just a way of making the monopoly feel like something else, except to those of us who remember a time when real workstations and servers stomped the earth with fire and fury... SGI Indigos, DEC Alphastations, HP Superdomes, Siemens Pyramid, Fujitsu 64's. Now it's all gone. Just x86 forever and ever, Amen.

Those who have never used anything but PC's, and the glorified PC's that pass for workstation and servers, in their personal and professional life will never understand the frightening emptiness out there. Maybe that's just progress and commoditization for you, the dinosaurs dying off... but evolution does not guarantee progress. Neither do market pressures.

SoupIsGood Food