[rescue] Sun 711

[Chris Byrne]

You mean other than the massive kickbacks and huge discounts it offers
manufacturers who develop or implement "new applications" (i.e. sticking
them where they don't belong) for Intel processor technologies?

Actually Intel makes a processor well suited for high bandwidth I/O. It's
called the i860 and is used in quite a few controllers ;-)

Remember, its not the suitability (or lack thereof) of the processor that's
the problem, its the motherboard architecture that's the problem.

Anyone who's read my many rants on lack of bandwidth or other bus contention
issues in the PCI bus knows what I think of it in general (great for cheap
and compatible high volume stuff, crap for performance or throughput)

Chris Byrne


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Dave McGuire
> Sent: 02 May 2002 05:55
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [rescue] Sun 711
>
>
> On May 1, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > Hey, if you end up managing this let us (or at least me) know.  I'd be
> > really intrested to hear what kind of intel hardware it'd take to push
> > that kind of throughput.
>
>   What is this "pull" to use PeeCees for this sort of stuff?  Why not
> just use computers that were designed for this much I/O in the first
> place?  Does Intel give out some sort of prize that I'm unaware of for
> plastering their processors into places they're really not suited to
> be?
>
>          -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire                                 "Mmmm.  Big."
> St. Petersburg, FL                                -Den
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