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Hi, does anyone know the main differences between Sun's Sparc processors and Intel's Xeons? I have read that sparcs have "higher performance" what is exactly meant by this? I am doing a comparison between servers and would like to know the proper way to compare between this two processors, not just by looking at the clock speeds.
Primary difference between the two, and this sometimes means a big difference depending upon what type of performance you need from your server:
SPARC is a 64 bit processor
Intel XEON is a 32 bit processor
Another difference is that SPARC technology only runs with UNIX/Linux products, and is most compatible with Sun's SOLARIS.
The Intel XEON is built for just about anything, intel is famous for making their chips compatible with the latest technology/OS out there, whether it be the new Windows version, or the newest Linux ports.
As for performance, like I said, it all depends on what type of operation this server will be hosting.