| From: | Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> |
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| To: | Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com |
| Cc: | Ben <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org, William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: UltraSPARC versus AMD |
| Date: | 2005-04-26 02:21:02 |
| Message-ID: | 426DA58E.2010207@mascari.com |
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Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com wrote:
> In my *utter* lack of enthusiasm over this option, I was gathering
> ammunition for better hardware. I went to spec.org for speed comparisons,
> and sun.com for price comparisons. Sun's *entry* level servers are more
> powerful when running AMD CPUs.
Just in case people still hold a bias against CISC processors capable of
running x86 code as necessarily inferior to more expensive 64-bit RISC
processors, in spite of the overwhelmingly obvious specint results to
the contrary, I'd like to offer up this little baby:
http://www.cray.com/products/xt3/index.html
Something everyone should have in their office...
Mike Mascari
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