Comments on: So where’s my T2000? http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/ by Mark Mayo Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:18:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: ameet http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-46868 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:05:46 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-46868 Hi Doug, We are considering T-2000 for oracle and just had a question regarding your comparison between T-2000 and V-880. Did both of them use the same external storage? Also do you have any quantifiable performance numbers that you could publish? Thanks Hi Doug,

We are considering T-2000 for oracle and just had a question regarding your comparison between T-2000 and V-880. Did both of them use the same external storage?
Also do you have any quantifiable performance numbers that you could publish?

Thanks

]]> by: » T2000 Blog Reviews | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-11090 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:10:57 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-11090 [...] The next hit was on Mark Mayo's VMUnix Blues. Headlined "So where's my T2000?" because he doesn't have the machine, this one is more a review of Sun Canada's interest in making good on a Sun corporate initiative. Some samples: Well, I filled out the original form the night the program was announced. People from Sun marketing contacted me to confirm some stuff. I told them what I wanted to do. They were excited. A week later someone at Sun in Ottawa called me. I said 'yeah, send it my way. we'll beat the snot out of it.' I volunteered that our current interface to Sun is with a local VAR. He said, ok, 'I'll work with them and your local sales office and get a box your way ASAP'. And that's the last I heard of it. [...] […] The next hit was on Mark Mayo’s VMUnix Blues. Headlined "So where’s my T2000?" because he doesn’t have the machine, this one is more a review of Sun Canada’s interest in making good on a Sun corporate initiative. Some samples: Well, I filled out the original form the night the program was announced. People from Sun marketing contacted me to confirm some stuff. I told them what I wanted to do. They were excited. A week later someone at Sun in Ottawa called me. I said ‘yeah, send it my way. we’ll beat the snot out of it.’ I volunteered that our current interface to Sun is with a local VAR. He said, ok, ‘I’ll work with them and your local sales office and get a box your way ASAP’. And that’s the last I heard of it. […]

]]> by: rajeev karamchedu http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10461 Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:48:02 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10461 and one more thing - if you ordered T1000, they are not shipping till end of March. and one more thing - if you ordered T1000, they are not shipping till end of March.

]]> by: rajeev karamchedu http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10460 Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:46:38 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10460 java threads very well and you should see the performance boosts. I myself am getting a 2000 for running some java programs. BTW - If you do want to test some of your applications and see how they would stack up on a niagara - then the following links should help <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/mrbenchmark?entry=is_my_workload_recommended_for" rel="nofollow">Is my workload recommended for a CoolThread UltraSPARC T1 server</a><a> </a><a href="http://cooltools.sunsource.net/cooltst/index.html" rel="nofollow">Cooltst</a> java threads very well and you should see the performance boosts. I myself am getting a 2000 for running some java programs.

BTW - If you do want to test some of your applications and see how they would stack up on
a niagara - then the following links should help

Is my workload recommended for a CoolThread UltraSPARC T1 server

Cooltst

]]> by: Jason Hoffman http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10200 Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:33:19 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10200 Erlang does well across Niagara’s cores ;-) Erlang does well across Niagara’s cores ;-)

]]> by: mark http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10091 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:48:39 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10091 Thanks for the info Doug. As you know I've never been on that side of the business, so it's all a big mystery to me. :) Glad to hear your customer is getting some good results! Have they compared to Oracle on Opteron (say, an X4200) by chance? Thanks for the info Doug. As you know I’ve never been on that side of the business, so it’s all a big mystery to me. :)

Glad to hear your customer is getting some good results! Have they compared to Oracle on Opteron (say, an X4200) by chance?

]]> by: Doug Frith http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10086 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:23:45 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/02/22/so-wheres-my-t2000/#comment-10086 SUN loaner program can be a bit challenging at times . The VARS and distributors usually pick up the slack by having their own pools of loaner gear, but it doesn't work out all the time. On the other hand, I currently work at a large sun reseller out of Toronto and we have had a t2000 in our lab for several weeks now and have loaded it out to a customer (by-passing the massive waiting list SUN has :). Running oracle on the server, this customers benchmark results were astonishing. T2000 (8 cores) vs v880 (8 cpu, single core) with the T2000 coming out on top a 42% performace gain. They ran their bench mark 3 times cause they thought something was wrong :) Even if it was equal I would have been impressed. Oracle must be pissed at that since the niagra cpu is prices at 1/4 of a cpu per core, where the sparc single core is 1 cpu. (so 2 cpu's worth of licenses instead of 8 for 42% more performance.... ouch) I hope SUN gets you a box soon, if I could, help I would but our geographical region is pretty much toronto/GTA based (more SUN rules :) Cheers SUN loaner program can be a bit challenging at times . The VARS and distributors usually pick up the slack by having their own pools of loaner gear, but it doesn’t work out all the time. On the other hand, I currently work at a large sun reseller out of Toronto and we have had a t2000 in our lab for several weeks now and have loaded it out to a customer (by-passing the massive waiting list SUN has :) . Running oracle on the server, this customers benchmark results were astonishing. T2000 (8 cores) vs v880 (8 cpu, single core) with the T2000 coming out on top a 42% performace gain. They ran their bench mark 3 times cause they thought something was wrong :) Even if it was equal I would have been impressed. Oracle must be pissed at that since the niagra cpu is prices at 1/4 of a cpu per core, where the sparc single core is 1 cpu. (so 2 cpu’s worth of licenses instead of 8 for 42% more performance…. ouch)

I hope SUN gets you a box soon, if I could, help I would but our geographical region is pretty much toronto/GTA based (more SUN rules :)

Cheers

]]>