On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Mikael <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oracle have been talking about making a low-end server model of their new > Sparc64 chip, I guess that one will sell at around 5000 USD too.
I guess you talk about so called Sonoma/scale-out SPARCs, well those were already unveiled and the prices start on > $11k -- see for example S7-2 box configurations. > (I didn't see any convincing ARM64 servers on the market yet.) I'm not sure, but various of those already looks quite nice, will not break the account nor power-bill and still be even comparable to POWER7/8 in terms of raw C compilation power. By comparable I mean they are not 10 times (or more) slower or so....
