[Suns-at-Home] Sun E4500

[Jerry Kemp]

Hello David,

I have an E4500 at home.  Mine is similar to yours, I have 8 processors 
(vs 6), but other than our situations sound similar.

I don't have an E450, so I can't directly answer your question, but I am 
sure that you have already figured out, 6 * 400 MHz != to a 2.4 Ghz 
processor.

A couple of things that I am doing with mine are that I picked up a 
D1000 array, and that makes it nice for working/training/playing with ZFS.

I gave up on finding the PCI 24 bit frame buffer.  The ones that I found 
cost as much as I paid for the E4500.

Instead, I am using SunRay's, and that is a neat environment to be in also.

If you have other questions, please post on line.

Hope this helps,

Jerry Kemp


David Barnes wrote:
> Hello all;
> 
> Anyone else on this list have an E4500 at home? I just picked one up... 
> it has 6 400mhz processors, and 4gb ram. Couple of 9gb disks, but I plan 
> to fibre attach it to my A5200 array.
> 
> How is the performance of this machine? Compared to say my E450?
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> David Barnes
> 
> davebarnes AT adelphia DOT net
> OpenVMS  , Tru64 , Solaris , Linux , OS X , SGI Irix
> 
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