looks like the 4500 came second to me by a fair margin, between 3x and
5x faster best case, not what Iwould call limping away.
Anyway that's enough of this thread, kill it now.....
Bruno Delbono wrote:
> Bruno Delbono wrote:
>
>> Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> There _are_ systems with hot-swap CPUs, memory and/or, PCI[-X] slots.
>>> They are _not_ commodity and pricey, and require OS-level support.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sun EXX00 + series running UltraSparc II and above have pretty much
>> hot swapable everything: cpu, memory, disks etc.
>>
>> And they are cheap on ebay these days (8-24 way 400 Mhz US-II
>> (64-bit), with anywhere from 2-14 GB memory and FC-AL IO etc. EX500).
>
>
> I'm really sorry to start this thread again but I found something very
> interesting I thought everyone should ^at least^ have a look at:
>
> http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/06/4-dual-xeon-vs-e4500.html
>
> This article takes into account a comparision of 4 dual xeon vs.
> e4500. The author (not me!) talks about "A Shootout Between Sun E4500
> and a Linux Redhat3.0 AS Cluster Using Oracle10g [the cluster walks
> away limping]"
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> -Bruno
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