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2026-05-07 14:39 UTC
@mbpaz@mas.to @flexion@oldbytes.space @davidseidl@mstdn.social
SOOOOOO heavy! Ugh. (Fantastic machines though. At least for my problems/code, completely trivial to get 95+% user CPU across 14 procs...)
Edit: Oh, I'm thinking of E4500's, never dealt with x4500's.
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@mbpaz@mas.to 2026-05-07 15:12
@davefischer@hachyderm.io @flexion@oldbytes.space @davidseidl@mstdn.social Confusing names by Sun, indeed. The E4500 ("Ultra Enterprise 4500") was a large(ish) server (up to 14 cpus) and the x4500 ("Sun Fire x4500", AKA Thumper) was a 4U box with 48 3.5" SATA disks and two x86 CPUs crammed with minimal air left. The E4500 was wonderful (and wonderfully expensive as well). UltraSPARC cpus were not the fastest at the time, but few machines could have 14 reasonable CPUs and scale well. Not as fancy as top end SGIs, though.