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Sun Fire V40z: Four Opterons in a 3U

 by Kristopher Kubicki on February 22, 2005 12:05 AM EST
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Compiling

We put a particular emphasis on compiling because it stresses the entire system (hard drive, processor and memory), but also because any *nix user knows that compiling is no fun on a slow machine.

GNU Make 3.79.1 / GCC 3.4.2

While GCC isn't multithreaded, we can run multiple jobs using the -j command in make . Below, you can see the significant improvement on performance going from 1 to 3 to 5 jobs. We used the commands as below to compile the Linux 2.6.4 kernel from kernel.org:

# yes "" | make config
# time make -jX

Kernel 2.6.4; make -jX

We also threw in some compile tests of entire GCC base, which take significantly longer than the Linux kernel to compile.

GCC 3.4.2: make -jX

Results were on par with what we had expected. Since we are not physically removing the processor in these benchmarks, the V40z scales much better than the dual W2100z. Three of our four processors are not doing anything particularly important, but all 8GB of memory are available to the single processor running the make threads.

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  • RadeonGuy - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

    I Wish I Had One

    *drool*

  • Ahkorishaan - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

    That thing is a monster! I can't even think of something to do with that much power... It would be wasted on anything I throw at it, that's for sure. Good thing I don't have 22,000 to throw away...

  • Viditor - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

    Wow...what a machine! I'd read the pathscale record setting previously, but it looks like HP has a real headache here...(Dell isn't even in the game...)

  • Doormat - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

    Yea the benchmarks are missing. I'd also like to see some reviews of "cheaper" (by an order of magnitude or so) 1U/2U 1/2-way systems. It'll be interesting to see what happens when dual core goes live later this year. I'd love to get some 1U 2-way servers and stick dual core chips in them. 4 procs in a 1U housing. Yeah. Baby.

  • bersl2 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

    #3: On the contrary. PPC runs embedded all the time.

  • mickyb - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

    They don't work for me either. On another note, the PowerPC management board is interesting. I am familiar with the HP Integritry Management Board. I don't think it runs Linux. I wonder if AMD would be interested in making a management board based on the Geode processor. PowerPC seems a bit much.

  • vaystrem - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

    Are the database benchmark images not working for anyone else?

  • LeadFrog - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

    That is a beast.
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