Ultra Plus, Ne?

By the way, all those SpecIntThingy 2006 numbers in the previous post?

They're normalised to the Sun Ultra Enterprise 2.

I used to work on one of those, albeit the 200MHz version rather than the 300MHz (actually 296MHz) version used as the Spec '06 baseline.  I even have an Ultra 5 in my closet.  Right next to the SGI O2...

For the baseline tests, they only used one CPU.  Even so, this new server is equal, for the purposes of general data crunching, to one hundred dual-processor Sun Ultra Enterprise 2's.

Which was 1997 hardware, sure, but they used the 2005 compilers and OS for the baseline testing, so the software isn't that far removed from today.

We have 4x the number of cores, and ~8x the clock speed, so there's a factor of 3 improvement in efficiency.  That's not too shabby; the Ultra 2 was a pretty solid machine in its day.

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