Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 17:53:35 01/07/06
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On January 07, 2006 at 12:13:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 07, 2006 at 00:02:10, Jay Urbanski wrote: > >>On January 06, 2006 at 23:31:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On January 06, 2006 at 21:04:53, enrico carrisco wrote: >>> >>>>How do these processors stack up for computer chess? I don't think I've seen >>>>any real information since the days of SPEC actually taken for a reasonable >>>>benchmark for computer chess (before it was found how cache dependendant it >>>>was.) >>> >>>sparcs suck. as "butt-head" would say (Beavis & butthead) "suns suck like >>>nothing has ever sucked before..." >>> >> >>Second that opinion. Niagra will be even worse... > > >Rumor has had it for a while that Sun was going to opterons. That would be a >reasonable decision for them as suddenly they will be on a "compatible >architecture" again. I think they're using Opteron to hedge their bets. They still have a huge investment in SPARC and it represents a huge percentage of their revenue stream. They make nice Opteron boxes - but unless they can leverage their Kealia acquisition to do something more inventive than their first generation "Galaxy" servers they're competing with the likes of Dell. I also think their strategy of pushing Solaris x86 is doomed to failure... but now we're getting *really* off-topic... :)
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