[rescue] SunBlade 2000 vs SunBlade 2500 vs Ultra 45

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 13:53:42 CDT 2009


Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:06:57PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>>> IBM I understand is quite happy, they are selling lots of their low
>>> end chips and Power computers are doing well. You just won't see
>>> either of them running Linux or being sold for $200 at Wal-Mart. :-)
>> The POWER systems run Linux.  Including Blue Gene.
> 
> Blue gene is PPC 440s and/or PPC450s.  Those don't exactly seem like POWER.

The two architectures are largely compatible.

Peace...  Sridhar



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