Saturday, April 08, 2006
Sun T2000
We got a demo Sun T2000 server at work. I can't wait to put this puppy through its paces. We've got a couple older sun boxen coming off warranty, and need to be replaced. This thing was built to eat java-based web serving for breakfast. And this brings a note of joy to an ex-Sun employee's heart.
I'm reminded of something I thought about Sun, Sparc, and Solaris back in 1994 or so when I started at Sun, and the SuperSparc implementation was Sun's top-of-the-line CPU... and it sucked: "If you've got slow CPUs, make sure you've got a lot of them". The UltraSPARC-T1 isn't a particularly fast CPU, but there's 8 cores and 4 threads per core, and for throughput-based load, this machine should rock. More details as we do the numbers. ¶ 3:50 PM
# prtdiag -v
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4v Sun Fire T200
System clock frequency: 200 MHz
Memory size: 16376 Megabytes
========================= CPUs ===============================================
CPU CPU
Location CPU Freq Implementation Mask
------------ ----- -------- ------------------- -----
MB/CMP0/P0 0 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P1 1 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P2 2 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P3 3 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P4 4 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P5 5 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P6 6 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P7 7 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P8 8 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P9 9 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P10 10 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P11 11 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P12 12 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P13 13 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P14 14 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P15 15 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P16 16 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P17 17 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P18 18 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P19 19 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P20 20 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P21 21 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P22 22 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P23 23 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P24 24 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P25 25 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P26 26 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P27 27 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P28 28 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P29 29 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P30 30 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P31 31 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
I'm reminded of something I thought about Sun, Sparc, and Solaris back in 1994 or so when I started at Sun, and the SuperSparc implementation was Sun's top-of-the-line CPU... and it sucked: "If you've got slow CPUs, make sure you've got a lot of them". The UltraSPARC-T1 isn't a particularly fast CPU, but there's 8 cores and 4 threads per core, and for throughput-based load, this machine should rock. More details as we do the numbers. ¶ 3:50 PM
