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Accelerators and Bingo

By David Young 12 October 06

Here’s a promotional spot we did for Sun. I think the video is great. Our Accelerator product allows our customers to use Sun X4100 and Sun T1000 products on an on-demand, horizontally and vertically scalable platform spread across multiple datacenters, without having to purchase Sun hardware (we do that).

I’m also impressed with the performance of the Sun X4500 powering Bingo (Joyent’s service I’m using to serve up the video). It show’s Bingo is a great solution for video/net/podcasters because of the raw performance delivered by the Sun X4500.


  1. Is nice to see a ‘small’ company such as Joyent being looked after by a big company such as Sun, and repaying the favor.

    Oh for an X4500 to replace my studio NAT boxes! — Douglas F Shearer    678 days ago    #

  2. I’m curious how the T1000 compares to the x4100 for web serving. Have you guys done any benchmarks? And when do you choose one over the other?

    — Sam Freiberg    678 days ago    #

  3. Do you guys have any experience with the FreeBSd-sparc64 port on Sun servers? I’m interested in one but am not that comfortable with Solaris compared to FreeBSD, but I’m not sure if there are any issues I should be concerned with.

    — Rob    678 days ago    #

  4. I can’t believe this was under seven months ago. You guys make me really want to put some of my meager savings into SUNW.

    — Adam Lindsay    678 days ago    #

  5. Amazing commercial. Makes me want to go out and buy some Suns. But then I don’t have to…

    Great job!

    — Clark Wilkins    678 days ago    #

  6. @Sam: Each has its own merits depending on the type of application you’re serving. If your language is thread-safe, the T1000 will be great. Ruby applications on the other hand, tend to do better on the X4100 (Opteron) platform).

    @Rob: You really ought to dive into Solaris. Servers crash, and with storage pools getting bigger, the long FSCKs on FreeBSD were driving us crazy. The ZFS filesystem in Solaris is an amazing feat of engineering. Solaris is open-sourced. And Solaris zones (think virtual machines) are very powerful ways to get maximum performance from your servers.

    — David Young    677 days ago    #

  7. http://www.textdrive.com/systems

    seems out of date. is textdrive
    using dell’s or sun?

    — zirpu    661 days ago    #

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