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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (83073)	6/20/2002 4:29:58 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) of 275872

tgp, Re: "What were the specs ton the 3800 they ran against?" sun.com store.sun.com Sun prices these systems with 900MHz UltraSparc III processors, and 8-way systems start at $234k. The mid-planes get 9.6GB/s of bandwidth, so the system is configured for reasonably high performance. But contrast that against the estimated base cost of a 4-way Itanium 2 system, whose base cost is supposed to be ~$40k. With 4x the performance at less than one fifth the cost, I can see why Reuters is enthusiastic about Itanium 2. Re: "How would it have done against a 15K?" You mean these? store.sun.com So if the 8-way Sun Fire 3800 isn't fast enough, you'd be willing to upgrade to the $1.5M Sun Fire 15k? And you'd suggest this over a $40k 4-way Itanium 2 system? I'm sure the former will outperform, but what is the added cost worth to a corporation? It looks like Itanium 2 could potentially save a company millions of dollars in IT spending. And there will eventually be 16-way and greater Itanium 2 systems to compare as well. wbmw

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