David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on August 5, 2012 3:49 pm wrote:
> > > Oracle keep supporting the (far slower) M-series SPARC?
>
> Honestly,
> the 'Itanium has bad performance' excuse makes no sense. It's definitely faster
> than Niagara and potentially the Fujitsu M-series.
>
> > I'd expect
> >
> fully loaded M9000 (64-socket SPARC64 VII+) to be approximately twice faster
>
> > than fully loaded Superdome2 (32-socket Tukwila) in majority of
> commercial
> > applications.
>
> > Do you have a hard data that could
> contradict my
> > expectations?
>
> I think the relevant comparison point is
> Poulson, as it should be out any day now.
>
> I'm a little surprised that they
> only have 32S systems, since they used to scale up to 64S...and now they have
> better interconnects.
>
> But I don't perceive Itanium as being dramatically
> slower than Fujitsu.
>
> DK

The interesting thing there is that NEC *does* appear to sell 64-socket SD2's, or at least that's what machine translation of http://www.nec.co.jp/products/nx7700i/product/7320h256/index.html seems to indicate. I wonder if HP just seems insufficient demand for 64s systems in the US to bother selling it.