Probably I am be the blogger posting the most articles about Sun's systems with the new T1 (aka Niagara) processor without having tried such a system myself, so much that some people call me "Niagara-Blogger".
So, here's another one about the lack of benchmarks with the popular Apache web server. (and in English, too! oh, dear...)
Some people even speculate the good benchmarks Sun published were only possible with the exotic software stack used, including a "special Niagara-optimized Java that nobody outside of Sun gets to use".
So it would be really nice to see some benchmarks with software people can easily download and try to reproduce the results. And since Sun markets the systems as perfect for web serving tasks, why not with the number one web server Apache?
If found only one mention of such a test on the web: Paul Venezia wrote a review of the T2000 in
InfoWorld: claiming 2200 pages/sec for the T2000 compared to 2500 pages/sec for an unnamed 4-cpu dual-core Opteron system (8k pages with 10 images on Apache 2.0.54). So that's not bad at all, as I estimate you'd get a price/performance ratio for the T2000 of 75% compared to the Opteron system. However, this benchmark poses some questions: Venezia also states a 2-cpu Xeon system reaches a surprising 2000 pages/sec (with IIS), making you wonder what excactly is measured here. Again, I sorely miss detailed explainations on the benchmark setup.
On the other hand, I hear from a person whose company got to test a T2000 that they just got Apache web serving performance comparable to an 8-cpu E4500, which I find pretty disappointing, since the E4500 is old and the T1 cores run at three times the clock speed.
I don't have any information about the test setup, though (except that it was on some Apache).
So again, there's still no good information out there on how the new T2000 und T1000 will perform with Apache or even a LAMP setup.
On a related note: Sun's
MrBenchmark announces a series of benchmark postings comparing quite a few systems, including T2000, and the first benchmark is a FPU-heavy microbenchmark that I assume to be not favorable at all for the T1 processor... this is going to be interesting.
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