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sparc T4

hpglow said:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20110927222344_Oracle_Launches_New_Market_Changing_SPARC_T4_Microprocessors_Servers.html
Am I the first person to read about these and think... I wonder how many PPD these would pull?

And yes I'm aware there is no SPARC client, and that these systems cost a damn fortune.
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Yeah, Ars had a nice writeup on them.
http://arstechnica.com/business/new...ough-to-stave-off-defections-to-x86-linux.ars

It sounds like the T3's strong point was in heavily multithreaded tasks, as I imagine they will now be 'flooding' the market at heavy discounts it would be a very interesting boxen. Provided there was a SPARC core available of course.
 
As Sean Connery would say, S[H]PARC
 
I have a dozen or so Sparc T3+ Boxes at my disposal, but never had time to work out the hack for F@H, just too busy. The Ultra T3's were great for massive multi-threadding, but sucked for workloads that weren't. The T4's are about the same, just higher clock speed so less than massive multi-threadded apps will benefit from the higher speed, but only marginally. It still doesn't compare to the Power 7 CPU's from IBM, those things are just sick in what they can dish out. They have a neat technology called PowerVM Lx86 that is supposed to allow you to run native linux x86 code on a Linux for Power install, but the software is still kinda buggy. I've got a small Power 5 boxen to test this out on but like I said, it's very buggy, sometimes it'll startup with no errors, other times it just spams a bunch of garbage. If I had more time to invest in it I'd like to get it working, have a bunch of Power 6 and Power 7 rigs I'd love to put to good folding.
 
R-Type said:
as I imagine they will now be 'flooding' the market at heavy discounts
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I highly doubt you will see any sort of discount at all on the T3's, Oracle doesnt even give discounts to developers who want to develop products on their hardware.

So if developers don't get a discount, highly unlikely that you will, ever. Oracle doesnt do discounts, Sun did, but not Oracle.
 
Mtnduey said:
I highly doubt you will see any sort of discount at all on the T3's, Oracle doesnt even give discounts to developers who want to develop products on their hardware.

So if developers don't get a discount, highly unlikely that you will, ever. Oracle doesnt do discounts, Sun did, but not Oracle.
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I was imagining the glut coming from businesses upgrading to T4 and selling off their T3 systems. I have no idea what these sell for so maybe thats not even a realistic scenario.

It sounds like you get to play with some fun toys at work. :cool:
 
from time to time I get some neat toys, but nothing like Patriot. Most of my gear is dedicated for development duty, but I have some dedicated F@H boxen running in my lab. Hoping one day to get more time to play around with some of the more advanced configs in my unix world but so far the holders of the F@H gate key wont support anything other than linux x86 or windows. Would be nice if they'd allow me to run my own build/make/compile/etc for Solaris and AIX to unleash some RISC fury on cancer. Maybe some day.
 
I personally doubt the T4 would be a good folder, it's really pretty slow compared to some of the big x86 boxes
 
Just did a quick ebay search for sparc T3 and it came up with one result. $2000 each for the CPU's, 16 core 128 threads 16 FPU's @ 1.65ghz, with dual 10gbE built into the CPU... Sounds interesting but quite expensive.
 
R-Type said:
It sounds like the T3's strong point was in heavily multithreaded tasks,
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Correct.. but that's for Data Based oriented system and that's Sparc last strong hold. the T3/T4 have poor Floating Point Performance, which F@H needs, so is not much use here
 
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