[lug] more hardware opinions?

[Chip Atkinson]

Worth noting is that the readers' choice for servers is HP.  I recently
got an hp server and am rather pleased with it.  It's only been about a
month, but it's quite peppy and from the people that I've talked with they
are very robust.  

Chip

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Dean Brissinger wrote:

> I'm very interested in getting a Sun Ultra 20 or SunFire X1200 because of
> the test results I've seen.  I intend to run VMWARE or Virtual Server
> however and really need a machine that can multitask.  Not sure if the x64
> platform has much to gain in that area.
> 
> More on Sun using Opteron:  http://www.sun.com/x64
> "It's no wonder our competitor has so much trouble catching up since their
> name rhymes with HELL." -- Sun Microsystems
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Brown [mailto:hugh at math.byu.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:47 AM
> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [lug] more hardware opinions?
> 
> We did some basic testing of a variety of machines and the AMD64/Opteron's
> were well ahead of the rest.
> 
> This isn't a definitive benchmark, but we ran the openssl speed test and
> then added up all the results for the various tests.
> 
> We tested some HP-UX boxes as well as Linux
> 
> 
> Model:Processor:openssl version:Total Openssl:rpmbuild openldap
> HP B2000:Single PA8500 500MHz:0.9.8:1825:n/a
> HP A500:Dual PA8600 550MHz:0.9.8:2379:n/a
> HP XW6000:Dual Xeon 2.4GHZ:0.9.7a:17884: didn't test
> Dell box:P4 3GHz:0.9.7a:22416: didn't test
> HP XW4300:Pentium 840x2 3.2GHz:0.9.7a:22546: 10:37 minutes
> beige box:AMD64 3400 2.2GHz:0.9.7a:71601:    13:00 minutes
> HP dx5150:AMD64 3800 2.4GHz:0.9.7a:73962:    12:51 minutes
> HP DL585: Dual Opteron 850 2.4GHz:0.9.7a:78102:  10:30 minutes
> HP XW9300: Dual Opteron 250 2.4GHz:0.9.7a:78271: didn't test
> 
> 
> Sorry for the format.  I'll have to check to see what values got summed,
> but the bigger the better for openssl.
> 
> Here's another benchmark that was looking at comparing the G5 to xeon and
> opteron:
> 
> http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436
> 
> Hugh
> 
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, D. Stimits wrote:
> 
> > It seems there are way more cpu types available now than just a few
> > years ago, and almost all of them have gone way down in price. I'm
> > especially noticing some opteron boards. I know the opterons work in
> > linux, and that they have both 32 bit and 64 bit instructions natively.
> > What I'm really curious about though is how opterons would compare to
> > something like the most recent pentiums, or the athlons? Does anyone
> > here have any experience or heard anything one way or another as to
> > where opterons, athlons, and newer Intel cpu's compare on the food chain?
> >
> > D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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