Use of floating point on typical mailserver

[Greg Matthews]

I'm considering evaluating the "coolthreads" hardware from Sun, in 
particular the T2000. This utilises the first generation "Niagra" chips 
which can handle up to 32 threads per socket.

The technology looks pretty good apart from the fact that they only have 
a single FPU per socket.

My question is, how much FP does a typical mail server (sendmail/MS/MW 
etc) need? Is it even worth going through the evaluation procedure or 
should I wait until the Niagra2 chips arrive (May apparently) which will 
have one FPU per core? Anyone here using this hardware?

GREG
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Greg Matthews           01491 692445
Head of UNIX/Linux, iTSS Wallingford

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