[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun

[Big Endian]

>On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:13:12PM -0400, George Adkins wrote:
>>  That's because the Indigo2 was a better machine.
>>  The fact that an o2 can render with hundreds of megs of textures better than
>>  the Octane is an accident of it's cheesy design.
>>
>>  What good is hundreds of megs of main memory taken out of use to store
>>  textures anyway when the 3d performance is nonexistent/poor?
>
>To be honest, my question for the O2-savvy among us concerns its
>memory architecture in terms of SQL database performance.  Would it be
>faster in any way due to its design over say a R10K based I2?

The O2 has a 2.1gb/sec i/o bandwidth.  This is compared to the ? 
(lower but not sure exact numbers here) bandwidth on the I2.  I2 also 
can only hold a max of 640(768mb?) of ram, O2 can hold 1gb.  However 
if your database can support SMP (oracle?) then the Octane or other 
larger sgi systems becomes more attractive.

daniel
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