Re: [osol-discuss] Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 servers on the market?

2008-02-04 Thread Casper . Dik
>Admitedly, that is not your average PC, and while its fast its >price-performance >isn't leading, there are no Solaris systems on the list that beat it in >absolute >performance. Nor, indeed, any SPARC ones. Hopefully Rock will help >out, eventually. Sun has not submitted a TPC-C benchmark

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 servers on the market?

2008-02-03 Thread James Mansion
Mike DeMarco wrote: > I believe that Windoz has a problem dealing with more than 4 CPUs > and the hyper-bus architecture for AMD processors extends to 4 slots. > So I do not believe there is a driving need at this time for such a beast. > > What on earth gave you that idea? Its not hard to find

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 servers on the market?

2008-01-29 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 01/29/08 12:18, Dennis wrote: Hi, I do not know, if this is the right place but I ask anyway: Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 (Xeon or Opteron) servers on the market? 1. is there no demand? I don't know about this. 2. are there techinchal restrictions? Yes, for example

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 servers on the market?

2008-01-29 Thread Mike DeMarco
> Hi, > > I do not know, if this is the right place but I ask > anyway: > > Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 (Xeon or > Opteron) servers on the market? > > 1. is there no demand? > 2. are there techinchal restrictions? > 3. do the major server vendors do not want to compete > against the

[osol-discuss] Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 servers on the market?

2008-01-29 Thread Dennis
Hi, I do not know, if this is the right place but I ask anyway: Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 (Xeon or Opteron) servers on the market? 1. is there no demand? 2. are there techinchal restrictions? 3. do the major server vendors do not want to compete against there own Unix-systems (b