From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lamar Owen Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:08:46 +0000 Subject: Re: Sun Enterprise 6500. 10xUltraSPARC/400MHz, 10Gb mem Message-Id: <200603241408.47256.lowen@pari.edu> List-Id: References: <87d5gegxf3.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> In-Reply-To: <87d5gegxf3.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 23 March 2006 23:08, Dennis Jenkins wrote: > I have a 8 processor E3500. Linux (Gentoo for me) > works great, except that it CAN NOT use the internal > Fiber Channel disk array. Where did this information come from? I also have an E3500, and four 36.4GB drives.... > Just remember that the CPUs themselves run at 334MHz > or 400 MHZ. An E6500 only does 334MHz b/c the > back-plane is too long to support faster CPUs. The 400MHz/8MB cache CPU's can do a 5x multiplier with the right clock board, with the gigaplane running at 80MHz and the CPU's at 400. This is what I have in mine. > I/O. In my opnion, the box would make a great > database server, but would not be useful for high-end > math or 3-d applications. Mine is going to be a Plone ZEO client cluster, fronted by Pound. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu