Andrew Mobbs (mobbsy) wrote,
Andrew Mobbs
mobbsy
Oh well, so Sun didn't announce any new 4- or 8-way Opteron boxes in their latest batch of product announcements. I'm still amazed that the only Tier-1 vendor who'll sell you a 4-way Opteron is HP, and nobody has an 8-way yet.

It might be that there isn't the demand until 64-bit Windows ships? HP submitted a TPC-C result for a 4-way Opteron 248 system running 32-bit Windows & SQL-Server which was in retrospect a tad disapointing, only fractionally beating 3.0GHz Xeons (all be it the 4MB cache versions).

The lack of 8-way Opteron systems is a bit surprising, especially given the competition scales terribly (IBM Xeon systems TPC-C 4-way vs. 8-way).
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