[Gllug] Sun hardware/firewall memory

[John Hearns]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 21:08 +0000, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:38:38PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > I suppose this is marginally off topic, but...something to ponder.
> > 
> > The Sparcstation 20 box I bought a few weeks ago for a fiver doesn't
> > appear to do much better in published benchmarks than a simple pre-mmx
> > pentium system that would have cost 50 - 75% less than the sparc when it
> > was manufactured.
> 
> If the system you are talking about is this one here:
> 
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SS20/SS20.html
> 
> It has ECC memory. What's the cache size on the processor you have?
> I believe the sparcstation 20 has 8kb L1 and 256kb L2. The bus is
> 100Mhz.

Talking about cache sizes, we recently got in some Itaniums with a
9Mbyte cache.
Jeez.... we had an IBM mainframe when I was in high energy physics which
had 4Mbytes of main memory...

On that note, I recently rad a definition of supercomputing as
'problems which don't fit into level 1 cache'

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