Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:15:52 01/07/06
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On January 07, 2006 at 20:53:35, Jay Urbanski wrote: >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... :) That is not spelled "Solaris". It is "Slowaris". :)
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