Sun Sparc2 offered to me. What should I check for?

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue Nov 14 22:03:04 2000

> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:07:00PM -0500, Bill Pechter wrote:
> > I've got a 420R at work -- and I think a multicpu PIII would put it to
> > shame in the price/performance area.
>
> *until* you get into serious I/O. Thats when the SPARCs beat the pants
> off everything else.

How many PCI busses does the average multicpu PIII server have? We manage
to push quite a few bits through the 6 PCI busses of our Enterprise 450s.
(Actually we're only using 3 right now with a 3 channel SCSI RAID card on
each. It doesn't take much to saturate a PCI bus.)

Then again we have the advantage of having gotten our 450 machines free. :)

Eric
Received on Tue Nov 14 2000 - 22:03:04 GMT