Anyone running big SPARC boxes?

[Martin Hepworth]

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Martin Hepworth
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Peter Bonivart wrote:
> John Rudd wrote:
>
>> Sounds very nice.  Have any idea about who we'd talk to about getting
>> FreeBSD certified for it (though, we might just go with Solaris if we
>> were to get some of them)?  How has its performance been?
>
>
> I know very little about FreeBSD but do they keep an official HCL? The
> certification regarding Suse and Red Hat comes from those two companies.
> What would the equivalent be in the FreeBSD world?
>
> Here's a link to some benchmarks:
>
> http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/benchmarks.html
>
> As I understand it, the Opteron is faster than anything Intel produces.
>
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