Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:18:58 -0700
From: Robert Lor <Robert.Lor@Sun.COM>
Subject: Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
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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