This posting has been updated, please see:
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/t5440_world_record_specjappserver_single
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wow, a $132,000 (published price of a single 4x1.4GHz T5440) server is 23% faster than a pair of $10,000 servers (maxed out dell 2950's).... And that is before we even get to the database server and the cost of running oracle on top of that monster (dont even get me started on oracle's brain dead cost issues, lets just leave it at a small fortune to license the sun box and a smaller fortune to license the dell R600)
I know that the SPEC app server benchmarks are not suppose to have any price component, but when you are sitting in my my seat, you can bet that something that cost 5x as much is going to have to be more than 23% better. (I dont think I'll be able to make up more than $5k of the $110k delta in power consumption and rack space cost).
Posted by John on October 13, 2008 at 10:41 AM PDT #
"wow, a $132,000 (published price of a single 4x1.4GHz T5440) server is 23% faster than a pair of $10,000 servers (maxed out dell 2950's)...."
With 64 Gigs, quad core processors I get around 38k per server. Which would match with the 64Gig memory T5440 which is around $ 79,995.00.
It is not a perfect match but 2 x 2950's @ 38k is around 76K. I did not max out the Dell's with respect to price but did with respect to memory.
From where I sit and with the memory cost of virtualization the T5440 is a strong contender with respect to price.
Posted by sms on October 15, 2008 at 08:38 PM PDT #
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