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[m.oreilly]

"In the far corner, wearing red shorts, is the defending champion - SmugMug's baseline cluster member, Olde Faithful: a Rackable C1000. Weighing in at 1U half-depth, with two dual-core Opteron 270HE 2.0GHz processors, 4GB of RAM, no disks, and Gigabit Ethernet. Her contract is a svelte $3,595. Olde Faithful, and her precursors, have been getting the job done at SmugMug for years.

In the near corner, wearing the blue shorts, is the upstart contender from Sun, CoolThreads: a Sun Fire T1000, with a single 8-core 1.0GHz Niagara processor containing 4 virtual cores per physical core, 4GB of RAM, an 80GB SATA HDD, and quad Gigabit Ethernet. Her contract is a whopping $8,395*. CoolThreads looks sleek in her stylish 1U, 2/3rds depth metal case, but can she deliver the goods?"


http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2006/08/...t1000-review/1/