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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. Who says they are? by IANAAC · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Who would have thought only a few years ago that Sun would be the new champion of Linux and AMD?"
    They're doing what they have to do to survive.

    If they had their way, it'd be Solaris/Sparc all the way.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      That's because there is none.

  4. 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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