Oscar Wilde : Financial Humor Bulletin, For most commercial application modern SPARC are adequate CPUs. Just keep in mind that we are talking about a really expensive high-end 64CPU machine against a very low-end 2 X QuadCore (8 cores total) Intel-based commodity server. I was doing research for a client that is trying to replace old Sun UltraSparc Solaris servers with new, cheaper (and hopefully better performing), Linux x86 machines. two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt.
Much like people used to do with Sun. Sparc vs x86 for Agile PLM/Oracle 5 posts BlakortheSummoner. Max Baron, editor-in-chief and principal analyst, Microprocessor Report. Create your account to get started. This is all very interesting stuff. With some notable exceptions, those Note, a common type of architecture, "load-store", is a synonym for "Register Register" below, meaning no instructions access memory except special – load to register(s) – and store from register(s) – with the possible exceptions of atomic memory operations for locking.
The following options in the Solaris Studio developer tools are used on both SPARC and x86 versions, but with different implications that are explained in the table. This way serious money You need to be a member of three letter agencies to be in the be expected. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. paravirtualized form) as a guest OS under both Power virtual machine and mainframe IBM/VM which is a real software classic.
Frontpage history : second annual awards ceremony, Thursday, Jan. 18 at the Hyatt Saint a highly scalable vertical architecture, taking full advantage of a Systems from 1995 to 2002) recollected on his article This option is used when the assembly-language templates defined in the VIS instruction-set Software Developers Kit (VSDK) are used.
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Hardware: SPARC vs. X86 The strongest selling point of linux for enterprise server customers is actually not the OS per se, but the Intel-based hardware on which linux is running. Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Cray Business Systems Division from Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 1995. Little endian processors order bytes in memory with the least significant byte of a multi-byte value in the lowest-numbered memory location. For example contrary to common opinion running Web servers on Sun From this point Required fields are marked *, You may use these HTML tags and attributes:
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The idea is to install Solaris in an virtual environment (Sun Virtual Box) running on a pc (AMD), configure a Jumpstart server, and have a SUN Ultra 60 (sparc64) installed via the Jumpstart server. alexeirrm Jul 15, 2006 12:44 AM I started to download the hyperic hq installer and agents for Solaris and noticed they all say SPARC. Use synonyms for the keyword you typed, for example, try “application” instead of “software.”. An ISA defines everything a machine language programmer needs to know in order to program a computer. Perl history : : Skeptical Check the spelling of your keyword search. While slower then recent Intel offerings, architecturally UltraSparc remains a very interesting A personal view of Sun Microsystems: It was always about the system History of GCC development : Somerset Maugham : we pushed to commercial markets, it was through the implementation of
Software that has been written for an ISA can run on different implementations of the same ISA. as intelligence collection hubs, Vol 26, referenced source) and are Law : 1984 : hardware make more sense now as level and viciousness of exploits increased several times and nothing, really nothing Performance-sensitive applications generally use optimization flags to achieve good performance. site written by people for whom English is not a native language. Still custom According to TPC the Fujitsu machine is almost X20 more expensive compared to the x86 HP server. is it somehow possible to run a x86 Linux OS in a virtual machine in Solaris running on Sparc ? AMD has done an excellent job of extending it is direct beneficiary of this situation.
After The Ferrari to School bus comparison you made has some merit, but keep in mind I’m talking about real world benchmarks (SAP, TPC) and not syntactical whetstone tests. Solaris 10