As expected, Sun said its new Sun Fire V490, V890, E2900, E4900 and E6900 servers are powered by UltraSparc IV+ processors with a clock speed of 1.5 gigahertz and run Sun’s latest version of its Unix operating system, Solaris 10. The servers will also run earlier versions of Solaris.
exciting stuff, cant wait til the becky box comes with sparc though
And now, with these dual core, faster CPUs, it will be even more smokin’. Interestingly, these fridge-sized I/O monsters cost half as much as an IBM blade server. That’s mind boggling, considering that blades are suitable only for a certain subset of computing problems, while machines like the V890, with it’s fast backplane, large memory map and flexible expandability, are suitable for all.
Now, if only the V440 was included in the US IV+ roadmap somehow, my hapiness would be complete. We do use the V490, too, but the V440 is now the top seller.
You’d have to really trick out a BladeCenter to spend $238,000. Besides, 28 3.6 GHz Xeons (or 56 2.2 GHz Opterons) are much faster than 16 1.5 GHz UltraSPARCs in some situations.
Looking at SPECrate, only an idiot would use Xeons in SMP. I guess that’s why IBM has to make blades out of them, and pretend the network is the bottleneck.
If I’m looking at the numbers correctly, the new UltraSPARCs will be comparable to dual-core Opteron, but with more RAS and bigger SMP ability. IMHO, Sun is looking pretty good for 2006.
“And now, with these dual core, faster CPUs, it will be even more smokin’. Interestingly, these fridge-sized I/O monsters cost half as much as an IBM blade server. That’s mind boggling, considering that blades are suitable only for a certain subset of computing problems, while machines like the V890, with it’s fast backplane, large memory map and flexible expandability, are suitable for all.”
You’re comparing a Blade Server solution against a full fledge server ? How desperate are you to make Sun look good ? ;P
Seeing that Sun doesn’t even have a Blade solution. How about comparing Sun’s new servers against their counterparts of which they are supposed to compete against ? DOH !
Excuse me mate; but the big racus made by Lintel advocates is how easily a big iron like a SUN V890 can be replaced with a set of Linux blades running in a cabnet.
So honey, come one; aren’t you going to stand up to the crease and justify your ilk SUN bashing by showing that a Blade of Linux machines is more cost effective? seems you were all willing to do that when a few financial companies made by the move, but when a competitive alternative is offered by SUN, you scamper for cover.
Sorry mate, but I’m not in that catergory and I do not believe that blades solve all problems, so basically your jab doesn’t work with me.
So it still stands that if you are going to compare, compare them apples to apples and not apples to oranges.