Amazing comparison of a 32-core Sun running Ubuntu versus 4-core AMD
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
"60 days ago Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz issued a daring invitation to developers: write a public review of "the world's most power efficient server" and keep the server.... Be careful what you wish for." Dan MacAskill from smugblog benchmarks the new 32-core Sunfire-T1000 (using Sun's new Niagara processor: 8-cores x 4 virtual cores for each physical core = 32cores) against his "Olde Faithful" server: a Rackable C1000 with 2 dual-core AMD Opterons @ 2.0Ghz. The results are surprising...
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