Re: Sun T2000

Duncan,

I've recently done a "quick and dirty" comparison of the T2000 server
vs Proliant DL380 G3 (based on 3Ghz Xeons).

One Niagara core were approximately 7 to 8 times slower than single
Xeon CPU in batch task (huge sorts/aggregates) - that is, you need a
parallel factor of eight on this "everywhere cool" server in order to
beat single threaded Xeon.

That being said - you still can use T2000 for batch jobs _if_ your can
parallelize them. Otherwise the performance of a single core is just
abysmal at best.


Are these servers up to the job of running a database?  It sounds like they 
might be OK for OLTP, but bad if there is significant batch work.


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