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- From: brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: How does the new 2000+MIP Sun server compare against a Cray/XMP?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.213636@siisun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:36:36 GMT
- References: <lg2hufINNj7k@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov11.185638.6416@PacBell.COM> <1992Nov12.223309.7567@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1e0f40INN65d@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1e0mq4INNil7@armory.centerline.com>
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- In article <1e0mq4INNil7@armory.centerline.com>, matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau) writes:
- |> In <1e0f40INN65d@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@plts.uucp writes:
- |>
- |> >Another difference is that you can buy a Cray today.
- |>
- |> Yeah, I was pretty surprised when I read the fine print of the announcement
- |> and found that the 20-processor version of the SparcCenter-2000 was slated
- |> for delivery "2H93". In other words, Sun preannounced the high-end of the
- |> product line something like a year in advance.
- |>
- |> Gee, I used to work for a company whose hardware division did that with
- |> its new products (long before the products actually existed -- I wonder
- |> how many processors they've got working in the biggest *existing* version
- |> of the SparcCenter-2000).
- |>
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- I talked to a senior Product Manager (of the Sparcserver 2000) and
- they DO have 20 processors machines running. However, they don't plan
- on selling them until they have the OS tuned appropriately which is
- why they will be only selling the 2 to 8 processors versions starting
- (?) in april. My guess is that Solaris 2.2 will come out then.
-
- And two lucky sites are getting them about now, I don't know who it
- is. We chose to buy a 690 + upgrade rather than go direct to Sparccenter 2000.
-
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- Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
- SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
- brossard@sic.epfl.ch
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