My 32 CPUs Are Better Than Your 72 CPUs

“IBM claims that it’s achieved 339,484 operations per second on a 32-way, POWER4 Regatta on the SPECjbb2000 benchmark. Which is higher than a 72-way Sun Fire 15K. IBM also brags that its Regatta, kitted out 128GB of memory and 36.4GB storage will cost – at $2 million – half as much as a Sun Fire 15K with 288GB memory and 288GB storage.” Read the rest of the story at TheRegister.

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