E4500 and Sunfire v880

Hi,I would like to know which is a high end server wheather it is E4500 or sunfire v 800, looking at the docs i felt both are almost equal,cos one use Ultrasparc 11 with 14 cpus's maximum and sunfire v 880 uses close to 8 cpus but it has ultrasparc 111.Please clarify

[289 byte] By [ashisha] at [2007-11-25 22:49:31]

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# 1

In my opinion the V880 is a more superior server and your are looking at apples and oranges.

The technology changes in the 3 years from each of their releases are vast and wide(4500-April 1998 & V880-Nov 2001). Depending on application load both are good solid machines. It is true that the 4500 will hold 14 CPUs but of a slower speed(464MHz max, most common 400MHz, but we won't go there) and Ultra II. The V880 with Ultra III CPU is a better processor with a speed of min 750MHz and a max of 1200MHz.

Not to mention, and I not 100% sure, that the centerplane of the systems have got to be different. SUN never jumped on the +MHz(make a faster) CPU to impress customers kick unless it could increase performance.

Hope this helps.

error at 2007-7-5 17:04:59 >

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# 2

Another couple of points probably worth mentioning; SF V880 supports more than twice the memory ( 64GB ) of the E4500 ( 28GB ) and the SF V880s I/O subsystem supports three 66MHz PCI slots. However the V880 was designed to upgrade the E450 and the SF4800 is the system that was designed to upgrade the E4500. The E4500 is a very good server though, I have worked with a number of customers that are using MySQL and >8 CPU/ 8GB RAM on the E4500, the performance is phenomenal!

mlennon at 2007-7-5 17:04:59 >

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