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Sun server was quite the rage back in the late 90's. From looking at this, it seems to be a blast from the past. Now that Sun is lessening their use of the SPARC CPU and leaning more toward Intel CPU, how will it be any different from a Dell (not even a HP ProLiant class from build quality and design engineering side)?
Got an older Intel CPU die from ebay to look at under the microscope. Grinding/dissolving to expose a die from a CPU was too much trouble, so I found someone selling these that never made it to being packaged.
A stacked image of a wafer full of CPU die's (I believe they are IBM CPU die's). Reversed 24mm on D300.
These are IBM's Power6 CPUs. They are dual-core and runs at 5GHz. Very fast, very hot, and very power hungry. These goes into the IBM 9119-FHA, largest of the Power6 model machines. Each "PU Book" houses 4 of these CPUs and each 9119-FHA can house 8 "Book"; making each 9119-FHA capable of running 64 CPUs. Quite impressive.
We are looking at getting Power7 machines (9119-FHB) when they are available and they can house 128 CPUs with each running at 2 "hyper-threads". Going to be quite a massive computing platform!