[Suns-at-Home] Sun E4500

[David Barnes]

Thanks Jerry.

Yeah I am going to use a Sunray... I have one served by my E250...  
the E4500 is running headless now... I plan to cable it up to an  
A5200 fibre array I also picked up..


thanks

David Barnes

davebarnes AT adelphia DOT net
OpenVMS  , Tru64 , Solaris , Linux , OS X , SGI Irix


On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:

> 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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