magellan
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As per the name of this forum, this is for CPU discussion. What are you discussing, exactly?
At work we are in the process of upgrading from a couple P595s to a couple P770s and a P740. Should have held off and gotten an P8 series instead... the $3MM we spent is already a generation old.
Are the P595's the 5GHz variants? What applications do you run on these systems?
No, they're 1.6ghz I believe. We use them for ETL jobs (Datastage), analytics (mostly SAS and sql), hosting a 25TB+ Oracle Database, among a few other light weight applications.
I think if apple still were RISC based PPC's like the days of yor we'd still be having the arguments that macs would be good at content creation in the multimedia sector but sucked at life.
it'd be like the computer that took 6 years to get an art degree, sounds cool, makes cool things, isn't getting any place fast in life...
25TIB, that's nothing to sneeze at. How much memory do you have installed on that system?
I'm willing to bet a Mac based on a Power7+ or a Power8 would be a lot better than any box using any x86 CPU at more than just "content creation in the multimedia sector".
That's possible, if developers spent the time coding for a non-x86 architecture