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SPEC CPU Rate is part of the SPEC CPU benchmark; it is not a "different" benchmark. The reliability argument doesn't "go out the window"; what do you think tha
by binarycrusader 12y ago
SPEC CPU Rate is part of the SPEC CPU benchmark; it is not a "different" benchmark.
The reliability argument doesn't "go out the window"; what do you think that software is virtualised on? And to top it off, you're losing a significant amount of performance by using a virtualisation solution like vmware.
In fact, there's entire segments of industry that won't accept the latency typical virtualisation technologies bring.
As for the 0.75 and 1.5 TB of ram argument, perhaps you missed what I said about terabytes. You have any Intel boxes with 32 terabytes lying around?
While you may have not seen any contracts floating around for SPARC hardware, I have quite recently..
Finally, as for "legacy" status, SPARC and Solaris have features not found anywhere else that are continuing to be developed and added even today. It's only a "legacy" platform if you completely ignore the technology there. And Solaris runs just fine on x86 thank you very much.