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- From: johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: How does the new 2000+MIP Sun server compare against a Cray/XMP?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.010158.11296@eskimo.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:01:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: eskimo.1992Nov17.010158.11296
- References: <1992Nov12.223309.7567@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1e0f40INN65d@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1e0mq4INNil7@armory.centerline.com>
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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).
-
- I didn't catch the shipping dates, but did catch that the limit for some
- time will be 8 processors. I suspect that this is a software limitation,
- not a hardware one. I suspect 8 processors is the cut off point where
- Solaris 2.1 will not be able to gain significant performance from more
- processors. I would guess to see the 8 processor limit removed with
- Solaris 2.2 or 3.0. 2H93 sounds about right if they are talking Dec 7
- for Solaris 2.1....
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