Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Feb 2006 14:07 UTC, submitted by Robert Milkowski
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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RE: No ones mentioning Slowaris anymore
by Wes Felter on Mon 20th Feb 2006 20:30
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Seems Sun has fixed a few things. They are beating all competors in the rack space market. If someone disagrees think about this what is the most important things in the datacenter.
* Size
* Power
* Heat
As shown by benchmark Sun Boxes on power race, check the specs they win the others as well. Though lots of people want to dismiss the benchmarks as being apples to oranges but i dare you to find a faster box that uses less power and fits in a 1RU or 2RU space than a t2000 doing typical network based workload. If your workload isn't suited to the T1000 or T2000 there is always the X4100 and X4200 opteron powered boxes that beat all the intel boxes, and ones that will be released in the next 12 months.
What is really amazing is that in the next year or two Sun will be releasing the "rock" platform that puts a floating point unit on each core, and you can only guess what the speed will be, imagine if they get it running at 2ghz, almost double the speed the ultraT1 chips, now you have a box would replace rackfulls of last years fast boxes in a 2RU space. Sun has allready began replacing Sun Enterprise 10000 boxes with a T2000 as documented at http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/12/300u-to-8u.html
The next generation will replace other large sun boxes perhaps Sun will end the datacenter space and heat problems singlehandedly with these chips. I wouldn't want to be the one that dismissed Sun because of a benchmark you chose to ignore. (apples to oranges) doesn't seem like a relavent argument when they save your company space, and money.