4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed

Hack Jandy writes "Anandtech has a pretty thorough analysis of Sun's V40z 4-way Opteron server that fits in a 3U. Among some of the more noteable benchmarks include a 2 minute, 30 second Linux 2.6.4 kernel compile! Who would have thought only a few years ago that Sun would be the new champion of Linux and AMD?"

I suspected

[geekee]

"Who would have thought only a few years ago that Sun would be the new champion of Linux and AMD?"

I knew that the ultraSPARC was dead a few years ago. Not surprised at the current Sun situation.

4-ways are nice and all

[Shut the fuck up!]

But for years I have been looking for a 3-way. My wife, is uh, not very compatible.

Hmmm

[Neil Blender]

Reading through the benchmarks, I see they compiled KDE under gentoo in just under 17 weeks. I'm impressed.

Re:Solaris and AMD

[Anonymous Coward]

My Super Mario 64 has a 64 bit kernel too
big deal

Re:I love the combination...

[TheKarateMaster]

Yeah... umm... I'm *pretty* sure Gentoo *is* Linux...

Don't want to start a disto war here or anything, but I think we can all agree that Linspire is by *far* the best, anyway.

P.S.(Don't shoot me, I'm just kidding, I use Debian.)

Re:Hmmm

[jd]

You think that's bad? You notice the benchmark is for 2.6.4, but kernel.org is at 2.6.11-pre4-mm1. That tells you how long it took to do the download on this box.

Re:I love the combination...

[Anonymous Coward]

you gain much more than 0.1% of performance compiling a linux kernel

I would say it is actually less than 0.1%. It's just pure placebo

Re:I smell ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Just be careful how the wind blows or you'll also take a quick shower. On a serious note, only after trying to purchase some property in JC and then moving back to NY from JC I realized what an overpriced, fucked up dump east NJ is. Especially when considering that east NJ was a land-filled swamp (Hamilton's project I think) and now has real estate taxes higher than Park Avenue's, and is controled by incestuous bureaucratic rednecks.

(just an idea, JC real estate tax is ~$2000/1000ft^2 per year based on property value from 6 years ago, when property value was 1/3 of current market value)