[rescue] What Linux can run on Sun Fire V890 (UltraSparc IV+) server

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 05:39:09PM -0500, nate at portents.com wrote:
>Speaking of fast SPARC hardware, how about Fujitsu's SPARC64 VIIIfx CPU (8
>cores, 128 gigaflops)?
>

Something I've been unable to gauge accurately in my web wandering is
- how much better are Fujitsu's SPARC processors, when compared to the
recent Sun offerings?

The wikipedia SPARC page(1) lists them in a column ranked by processor
freq. and cores, is this something like the actual performance
ability?:

Name (codename)		                Model	Frequency (MHz)		Arch. version	Year	Total threads

UltraSPARC IV (Jaguar) 			Sun SME1167 	1050b1350 	V9 	        2004	       1C2=2  
UltraSPARC IV+ (Panther) 		Sun SME1167A 	1500b2100 	V9 		2005           1C2=2  
UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) 	        Sun SME1905 	1000b1400 	V9 / UA 2005 	2005 	       4C8=32  
SPARC64 VI (Olympus-C) 			Fujitsu 	2150b2400 	V9/JPS2 	2007           2C2=4  
UltraSPARC T2 (Niagara 2) 		Sun SME1908A 	1000b1600       V9 / UA 2007    2007           8C8=64  
UltraSPARC T2 Plus (Victoria Falls) 	Sun SME1910A 	1200b1600 	V9 / UA 2007    2008           8C8=64  
SPARC64 VII (Jupiter) [10]              Fujitsu 	2400b2520 	V9/JPS2(?) 	2008           2C4=8 	     
UltraSPARC RK (Rock)[11] 	        Sun SME1832	2300 		V9 / UA__?__  canceled?[12]    2C16=32 
SPARC64 VIIIfx (Venus)[13][14] 		? 		?               V9 		TBA            8 cores

Also, anyone able to comment on the future of UltraSparc RK (Rock) ==
is it still going to be produced?

Cheers,
Jonathan
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC