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Sun’s response

Looks like I may have kicked over an anthill over at Sun - a bunch of Sun employees have contacted me. Sun’s response to my review has been very impressive – they’ve all been very polite, responsive, and anxious to get their hands dirty and see exactly what we’re doing. The people I’ve spoken to so far have been hardcore and extremely knowledgeable, so I expect some great results.

I’m gathering some additional data they asked for on Ubuntu Linux, and then we’re gonna get together at their Menlo Park offices next week and do some profiling to see both where the bottlenecks are and if there’s any other tweaking we need to do.

Linux is clearly my #1 target, since I’d rather not swich OSes unless there’s something super-compelling about Solaris (I remain open to the idea that there may be, but am skeptical), so we’ll be tackling that first. But the really good news for all the commenters is that we’ll be sticking another T1000 in one of our datacenters and try profiling Solaris on T1000 side-by-side with Ubuntu on T1000.

This should get interesting. :)

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6 Responses to “Sun’s response”

  1. iMorphous » Blog Archive » Evaluating Sun’s Sun Fire T1000: Not Worth the Trouble? Says:
    August 18th, 2006 at 8:23 pm

    [...] Looks like Sun will be helping with Solaris numbers and some performance tuning after MacAskill’s original post got Dugg at ton. I’ll be curious to see if the tuned Ubuntu or Solaris on CoolThreads can beat Olde Faithful. It will be most impressive if they succeed. Hopefully, there is a detailed analysis as to why they could double the performance per watt of the T1000 if they do. [...]

  2. mudrii Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 11:09 am

    Just waiting for the outcome and concrete results
    Regards

  3. Jared Kuolt Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 11:52 am

    ZFS isn’t compelling enough?

    Really?

  4. calisurf Says:
    August 26th, 2006 at 2:37 pm

    Any news on this test? or is it not going to happen?

  5. Anthony Says:
    September 14th, 2006 at 4:05 pm

    Any update on the Solaris comparison?

  6. rnc Says:
    October 2nd, 2006 at 9:17 am

    2 weeks on from the last comment, I see there are still no results on this. Either you are busy, SUNW are busy, the results are embarassing for one side or the other :-) or doing the job properly is proving slow work.

    In any case, I, for one, would love to see the outcome after your compelling description!