Nickname: buzzzzz

Review: Buz, maybe you are missing Krishnan's point. The old car has to be filled up every 300 miles and the new car every 400 miles. What am I missing? I guess Krishnan's point was: Irrespective of cache size, if Sun is able to deliver the performance, why worry about the cache?

Date reviewed: Dec 12, 2005 8:33 PM

Nickname: buz

Review: To Krishnan -- to continue your allegory. The new car can also travel much faster, so if the old car could travel a few hours on its tank, the new car, going faster will use up the smaller tank much faster. Do you want to stop and refill the tank every few minutes? you lose all advantage of a faster and more efficient car?

Date reviewed: Dec 9, 2005 12:54 PM

Nickname: Krishnan

Review: " ... more staying power?" Hmm .. Let us assume current cars that yield say 30 miles per gallon of gas, has a 10 gallon gas tank (crude equivalent of cache). Now if you deliver a new technology with which a car delivers 100 miles per gallon and has only 4 gallaon tank capacity, Karl won't buy that car -- because the gas tank is not big enough. Did you say he is V.P. ...

Date reviewed: Dec 8, 2005 10:52 PM

Nickname: anonym

Review: I can't say if posts below are from SUN employees or not, but (and I am not a SUN or TI employee) I think a HUGE part of SUN's sucess is their partnership with TI. Go TI !!! Great products, great quality, great design. Vivre!

Date reviewed: Dec 8, 2005 9:47 PM

Nickname: AstroTurf Inspector

Review: Most of these comments are obviously from Sun employees. It is sad to see them resorting to these tactics.

Date reviewed: Dec 8, 2005 2:16 PM

Nickname: khb

Review: IBM_Lover correctly notes that IBM has employed large caches effectively. However, it is not the only effective strategy for scientific workloads. Large Cray machines (nee Tera, and the original vector machines) did not have large caches, nor would their performance have been improved by having them.

Date reviewed: Dec 8, 2005 9:06 AM

Nickname: superjordo

Review: I think too many Sun employees have left comments.

Date reviewed: Dec 7, 2005 11:27 PM

Nickname: anonym

Review: I think Sun's new strategy of openeness will work. Java is going open so developers won't resist its adoption. Sun sells T1s independently so it gets more market share. Overall, all these help to get Sun's name out that will sure yield to higher sales.

Date reviewed: Dec 7, 2005 10:30 PM

Nickname: Pistol Pete

Review: I think this a going to be a very solid server.

Date reviewed: Dec 7, 2005 10:09 PM

Nickname: justFUD

Review: IBM FUD is the most flattering thing they could say about this product. It seems FUD is all they have to offer these days.

Date reviewed: Dec 7, 2005 10:02 PM