Sun Fire UltraSPARC T1000 1

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Has anyone had the opportunity to use this server (or T2000)? Is it as fast as claimed by Sun?

I would like to consolidate 7 servers to 3 using the T1000 and Solaris 10, but just wanted discussion from someone who has used it and thoughts on speed, reliability, and so on as a consolidated web server.

 

[SamBones]

I'm currently "playing" with a loaner T2000. It does perform like a machine with 32 CPUs! Using Weblogic on it and I'm pretty pleased with it. I don't have any hard peformance numbers for you yet, but it is noticeably faster. And it's a very small machine drawing very little power. I like it a lot.

 

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That is encouraging. If you have the time and chance, could you post your performance numbers? Are you runnnig Weblogic Portal or Express?

I like the thought of less power consumption, too.

Thanks.

 

[SamBones]

Weblogic Server 8.1 SP5. Going to try WLS 9.1 shortly.

The CPUs are all 1 GHz UltraSPARC T-1's. They seem to be about as fast as other SPARC processors at about the same speed. I have a little benchmark program that I've had for a very long time. It's pure number crunching, no IO of any kind. These processors rate about the same as a V440 I have with 1.062 GHz processors. BUT, this is a single threaded benchmark so it's only clocking a single CPU.

The T2000 really gets up and boogies with a lot of processes or threads to run.

root@**** # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag -v
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4v Sun Fire T200
System clock frequency: 200 MHz
Memory size: 8184 Megabytes

========================= CPUs ===============================================

                            CPU                 CPU  
Location     CPU   Freq     Implementation      Mask 
------------ ----- -------- ------------------- -----
MB/CMP0/P0       0 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P1       1 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P2       2 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P3       3 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P4       4 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P5       5 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P6       6 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P7       7 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P8       8 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P9       9 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P10     10 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P11     11 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P12     12 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P13     13 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P14     14 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P15     15 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P16     16 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P17     17 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P18     18 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P19     19 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P20     20 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P21     21 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P22     22 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P23     23 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P24     24 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P25     25 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P26     26 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P27     27 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P28     28 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P29     29 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P30     30 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1         
MB/CMP0/P31     31 1000 MHz  SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1

Sweet!

 

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Wow! I wish I could test drive one. I saw Sun has a loaner program. Wonder how that works. I saw the base cost for a T1000 was $3000, which is a great price.