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Tuesday November 06, 2007
UltraSparc T2 and Tigerton Tests
I'm delighted to say that Phil Harman has published the detailed results of some of his testing of an UltraSparc T2(in a Sun Enterprise T5220 8 cores)) and a 4-socket Intel Tigerton (or Xeon 7300 as it should be called) (in a Sun Fire X4450 16 cores) . Take a look here. Let me make an important point here. What Phil's test show is a remarkable performance by T2 for a specific workload. Absolutely fantastic. However, there are other work-loads and use-cases that will be better suited to x86 processors and there are yet others where SPARC64 will be best. And there will be some workloads where two or even three of these architectures make a viable case to be chosen. That's why we at Sun offer our range of products. It's an old phrase but still true: "horses for courses". At Sun we have horses for all your courses.
Posted at 04:11PM Nov 06, 2007 by psa in General |
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