Sun's W2100z Dual Opteron Workstation
by Kristopher Kubicki on October 27, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Compile Benchmarks
GNU Make 3.79.1 / GCC 3.4.2
Any programmer will always appreciate additional power during compile time. While GCC isn't multithreaded, we can run multiple jobs using the - j command in make. Below, you can see the significant improvement on performance going from 1 to 3 jobs. We did not include JDS benchmarks for this portion of the analysis, since comparing a 32-bit kernel build to a 64-bit kernel build are not comparative examples.
Once again, we cannot compare our old 32-bit results with our 64-bit results above. We are compiling a 64-bit kernel in a 64-bit world, whereas in our last CPU roundup, we were compiling a 32-bit kernel in a 32-bit world.
We included a few single processor compiles to demonstrate performance scales with multiple processors. For those interested, we also threw in some compile tests of entire GCC base, which take significantly longer than the Linux kernel to compile.
Performance differences between the three systems are very negligible, although the w2100z machine does edge out the whitebox configuration.
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mino - Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - link
#5 I would, putting aside the fact I could not afford one. :(Even despite I'm running Tyan Tiger MP on Fedora C2 ;)
meatless - Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - link
Maybe it was just done for some sort of comparison baseline, but who would actually use RedHat 9 on a brand new dual Opteron workstation?jbond04 - Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - link
Hey Kris, great job on the review. I wanted to let you know that I was pleasantly surprised by your thermal graphs for the inside of the case. I think they're a great idea; and I've never seen them before anywhere else. Keep up the good work.-Scott
Reflex - Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - link
I notice that this system is nearly identical to the IBM Intellistation that just arrived on my test bench today. Even the motherboard is identical, as well as the case(exterier looks a bit different, but interier is the same).Makes me wonder if Sun and IBM are actually building these, or outsourcing them to a third party and sticking thier label on them
phaxmohdem - Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - link
Just when I was complaining of no top teir dual opteron workstations. It's a shame that the way I'd like it configured costs 18,000 bones. Guess it will just be a pipe dream for a while more. God help our wallets when they release the w4100z Quad opteron workstation ;)Denial - Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - link
I like to give one a test drive myself, but I'll let others be the guinea pigs.madeira - Thursday, August 18, 2011 - link
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I need physical BIOS or software update
Could you help me please!