Subject: Re: Sparc 20 hypersparc vs Ultra 2
To: Michael-John Turner <mj@turner.org.za>
From: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@macfinity.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/20/2005 16:15:15
thus Michael-John Turner spake:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:33:45PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> 
>>i have a SS20 with Dual 85MHz SuperSPARC II (those weren't supported by
>>SUN IIRC because of the huge amount of heat they generate) which is
>>faster than a 200MHz HyperSPARC dualie of a friend. as a rule of thumb
>>one can say that the SuperSPARC II is at least as fast as a HyperSPARC
>>with twice the clock.
> 
> 
> There's quite a nice overview of MBus modules at
> http://mbus.sunhelp.org/modules/index.htm. It also has an imprecise but
> still useful performance comparison at the bottom of the page.
> 
> Anyone feel like donating an SMP sparc64 machine to Michael? - at the rate
> he gets things fixed, we should have working SMP by the end of the month :)

hm,

as i'm in germany i think it'd be too expensive to get my dual U2E to
michael than perhaps rising some $$$ and get one in the US?

even U2s should be fairly cheap nowadays...

timo