2006-05-27
finally
congrats to "Stefan Rubner":http://whocares.de/archive/001176.php who won the T2000 this month.
2006-05-25
Bye Bye Sunfire
Well.. the time has come.. my Try & Buy period is over.. and it is time to return the machine. It's going to be picked up today.
It's a shame that sun hasn't updated it's "winners page":http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/performance/winners.jsp I'm guessing they have got enough marketing exposure from "Colm":http://www.stdlib.net/%7Ecolmmacc/2006/03/27 ...
2006-05-19
sunfirefan.com gets zyoned.
Admittedly "SunFire":http://sunfirefan.com isn't as popular as it was when it first started, but it made the perfect candidate to get '"zyoned":http://zyons.com/forum/powered-by/sunfirefan/' The conversion was quite painless, and the old URLs still work, which I thought was important. in other Django news, "Ned Batchelder":http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200605.html#e20060515T054752 announced "Tabblo":http://www.tabblo.com/ a ...
2006-05-12
Sunfire competition status
I've been checking the sun "winnners":http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/performance/winners.jsp about once a day to see if I have won (or who did) and I noticed a couple of changes. (they could have been there all the time, I'm not sure) * You can now enter with a T1000, which is a smaller 1U offering. Thankfully it looks like they will allocate ...
2006-04-07
How does MySQL perform on a sunfire?
If you have been reading my previous entries the answer you will think is 'not bloody well'. After about 3 days of tuning we doubled the throughput, and got a much nicer picture, outperforming a x86-64 machine by 2.5 times in one case. Thanks to Luojia Chen (Jenny) from Sun, Peter Zaitsev from Mysql, and "Colm MacCárthaigh":http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/ & "Mads Toftum":http://www ...