[geeks] Sun-HOWTO

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> What would be wrong with that?  Assuming that they had at least 288 sun
> rays, it could be cost effective for a 72 proc machine.  Those machines
> are 2 mill, right?  That is a cost of nearly $7k per sunray (not including

Bwahahahahaha!  <Thud> *Falling off of chair*

To give you an idea, when I boought a 64-CPU E10K in '98 with 64G of RAM,
the *very discounted* price was $3.5M.

> the time, I bet you could probably get more like 1000 terminals per
> SunFire (assuming the server software isn't doing anything really stupid).

That I could see.  Or, use domains to group CPU resources where they are
needed most.

-Pete