UltraSPARC T2 - not being selective at all
Wednesday Oct 10, 2007
Take a look at the last dozen posts, lots of world records for the UltraSPARC T2. All done with a single chip that beats many 2-socket and even 4-socket X64 systems. That is pretty amazing!
There are people attacking it, and many are weak or have their facts wrong.
Linus Torvalds, suggests that sun was selective on benchmarks, what??? Sun compared
against every system that x64 vendors submitted on every tier of the datacenter.
Linus points to one case where a 2-socket quad-core was faster than the US T2, but
the BIOS had to be changed from defaults to get a better result.
I guess you can change the BIOS from Linux... 
oh, wait, yeah that X5365 result was on Windows?).
Bottom line: the UltraSPARC T2 is very innovative, low power, 64-threads and leading the industry. Boots Solaris, Boots Ubuntu, Open-source hardware!,...
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