Re: T2000 series and statistical software

dogdogdog <young.sul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If so, how does the T2000 compare in performance?

Is floating point performance important? If it is, wait for the new SPARC
chips with a FP unit per core rather than one shared between all the cores.

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