Star Sun's T2000 Beats Dual Xeon at Serving Dynamic PHP Pages
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Feb 2006 14:07 UTC, submitted by Robert Milkowski
Benchmarks According to a benchmark, Sun's Niagara processor is over 4 times faster at serving dynamic PHP pages than a dual Xeon server. "We did real production benchmarks using different servers. Servers were put into production behind load-balancers, then weights on load-balancers were changed so we got highest number of dynamic PHP requests per second. It must sustain that number of requests for some time and no drops or request queue were allowed. With static requests numbers for Opteron and T2000 were even better but we are mostly interested in dynamic pages."
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Noodles
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2005-08-12

Now surely Sun has lowered pricing quite a bit lately, but whatabout this piece of hardware vs the IBM HW? <br/><br/> Also, this piece of hardware vs. quad-opteron (dual core) to level playfield on CPU count on both sides.

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Wes Felter Member since:
2005-11-15

Unless you design processors, it's not clear that normalizing the core count teaches you anything.

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