Re: UltraSPARC IV

From: Tim Johnston <tjohnston_at_quallaby.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:29:12 -0400
Message-ID: <40C4DE28.7010801@quallaby.com>

> Yeah, it pretty much removes any argument for the US IV, in my mind.
> I'm a little peeved that Sun is muddying the waters by claiming that
> each UltraSparc IV is a "processor" - the amusing side effect is their
> marketing capital does linguistic backflips with terms like "Chip
> MultiThreading - CMT". The goal is to encourage people to see the
> chips as a single processor, and not see the need to doubly license
> per-cpu software, which I find disingenuous.
>

Actually, there is one interesting case where the US IV is attractive... The problem lies with moving through the Sun product lineup and needing more then 12 CPU's on your DB server... Here is a product summary using list prices from the Sun website...

A 4 CPU 16 GB V480 lists for $43K

A 8 CPU 32 GB V880 lists for $110K

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