Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Comparisons:

T5440: 4 - 1.4 Ghz, 32 x 2 GB, 2 - 146 HDD via ATO
New 1.4 GHz pricing at former 1.2 price, and 2 GB DIMMs
SPECjbb benchmark 693,736 bops with 128 GB; 64 GB priced on all systems

rx6600 price from HP web site on 7/1/09
SPECjbb of 158,714 from 12/06, ~22.7% of T5440 but with smaller cache

IBM 570 price from IBM announce. letters and web
SPECjbb2005 as priced is 402,923 bops, ~58% of T5440

IBM 560 price from IBM announce. letters and web
SPECjbb2005 on IBM 560 p6 3.6 Ghz, 8 chips/16 cores is 593,904 bops. Configured system would be <50% of T5440

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