notes on new power mac (was Re: clusters v SMP)
Joachim Worringen
joachim at lfbs.RWTH-Aachen.DE
Wed Jan 30 12:02:21 PST 2002
James Cownie wrote:
>
> > so basically, if you want near-commodity 64b pointers, you're
> > screwed. at least if/until AMD does their hammer series...
>
> Sun would probably disagree.
>
> A SunBlade 100 workstation with a 500MHz UltraSPARC-IIe, 128MB and a
> 20GB disk and lists at $950.
And offers 2GB maximum memory and 32-bit PCI. No, I don't think has
anything serious to offer for beowulf-style clustering. It's not their
market as they see it - maybe they are missing something?
Joachim
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