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Remember using these in 2010s. College usee 4 sparc servers, one for each lab. Think my favorite memory using it was watching the sheer chaos and panic during
by andromeduck 3y ago
Remember using these in 2010s. College usee 4 sparc servers, one for each lab.
Think my favorite memory using it was watching the sheer chaos and panic during some theirs year CAD class when some clients would randomly freeze and die. Turns out a second year algos course had an assignment due mid day for which the auto grading scripts often triggered run away memory consumption
On another note, always wondered if they might have survived if they didn't cancel Sparc the moment Itanium was announced.
- rbanffy 3y agoSPARC was very costly to develop. Sun spread itself between Niagara (high thread count) and Rock (single thread performance). IIRC, Fujitsu took over the Rock track because they needed it for their telco-grade hardware. It didn’t help that Sun could never decide whether it was a software company giving Java, Solaris x86 (actually a good idea to have an onboarding platform), and OpenOffice away hoping on some licensing deals, or a hardware company building really nice desktop and server gear. In the end, they couldn’t do either, even if everything they did was best in their segment.