Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Even Sun chooses Linux over Solaris for high performance


Found this section of Roland Dreier’s blog discussing Sun’s new Constellation system quite humorous:

One other thing I noticed is that the Sun press stuff is billing the Constellation as running Solaris, while the actual TACC page about the Ranger system says the cluster will be running Linux. I’m inclined to believe TACC, since running Solaris for an InfiniBand cluster seems a little silly, given how far behind Solaris’s InfiniBand support is when compared to Linux, whose InfiniBand stack is lovingly maintained by yours truly.

Did you know that of the 7 systems Sun placed in the Top 500, 6 of those 7 are running Linux and only 1 runs Solaris? Who said “Solaris is a better Linux than Linux”?

Posted by md on June 28th, 2007 | Filed in Linux, Solaris, Sun, Technology |



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