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For a comparison, you could get a 64 processor, 256Gb ram Sun Starfire around 20 years ago[1]. Wikipedia claims these cost well over a million dollars ($1.5 mil
by dan-robertson 6y ago
For a comparison, you could get a 64 processor, 256Gb ram Sun Starfire around 20 years ago[1]. Wikipedia claims these cost well over a million dollars ($1.5 million in 2021 dollars). This machine was enormous (bigger than a rack), would have had more non-uniform memory access to deal with, and the processors were clocked at something like 250-650MHz.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise
- tyingq 6y agoThat's a pretty good comparison. It weighed 2000lbs, and was 38 inches wide, or basically 2 full racks, which I guess you could call an 84U server. It was also 49 inches deep, versus a standard rack which is 36 inches deep.
- angled 6y agoiirc, anton got a kernel compile down to about a minute with -j32 back in the day while at ozlabs?