Our new friend, Martin "the demise of MPE" Garvey may be at it again.

The following is a piece in Information Week's daily newsletter. Following
the first link, "Lowdown On The High End" (which took two people to write,
Garvey and another), the article there states (or misstates) that superdome
"features up to 64 CPUs". Um, well, according to
<http://www.hp.com/products1/unixservers/highend/superdome/specifications.ht
ml#capacity>, its capacity is "64-way 750MHz, 4-way superscalar PA-8700
CPUs". My math squares with my memory, that superdome supports 256 CPUs,
more than 15K's 106 processors. I don't know enough about superdome to know
if "up to 128GB memory per cabinet" (hp) compares to the "256 Gbytes of
memory" in the linked article, but perhaps someone else here does know. If
superdome support eight of these  cabinets, that's 1TB of memory. So, is the
Sun Fire 15K "bigger" than superdome?

And I wonder about other comparisons?

** Sun's New Unix Server Is Biggest Yet

Sun Microsystems' new Solaris Unix-based server, the Sun Fire
15K, is the biggest Unix server yet. It will scale to as many as
106 processors in a single frame, has a terabyte of memory, and
can attach up to five petabytes of exterior storage. And the 15K
is designed to be easier to maintain and manage than previous
Unix servers. Most important for Sun, however, is that the 15K
will become another lure as Sun tries to win over more IBM
customers.

The 15K reduces the latency usually associated with big Unix
systems with processors that share the same memory and
input/output. Sun has also enhanced Domains, which was introduced
in the 15K's predecessor, the E 10000. Domains allowed users to
run multiple workloads, but users had to program them ahead of
time and stick with them during operations. The 15K's Dynamic
System Domains lets users rearrange the partitions on the fly. In
addition, features in the Solaris operating system let users
modify software without taking the system down. The 15K will be
available in November priced from $1.4 million for 16 processors
to $10 million for 106 processors. - Martin J. Garvey

Read on at
Lowdown On The High End
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eEd60BdJZN0V20Pn20AE

IBM Offers Peek At Next-Generation Unix Server
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eEd60BdJZN0V20RT10An

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