I am thrill to inform you all that Sun has just donated a fully loaded
T2000 system to the PostgreSQL community, and it's being setup by Corey
Shields at OSL (osuosl.org) and should be online probably early next
week. The system has
* 8 cores, 4 hw threads/core @ 1.2 GHz. Solaris sees the system as
having 32 virtual CPUs, and each can be enabled or disabled individually
* 32 GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory
* 2 @ 73GB internal SAS drives (10000 RPM)
* 4 Gigabit ethernet ports
For complete spec, visit
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/specifications.jsp
I think this system is well suited for PG scalability testing, among
others. We did an informal test using an internal OLTP benchmark and
noticed that PG can scale to around 8 CPUs. Would be really cool if all
32 virtual CPUs can be utilized!!!
Anyways, if you need to access the system for testing purposes, please
contact Josh Berkus.
Regards,
Robert Lor
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
01-510-574-7189