From what I understand the confusion is due to Netapps terminology.

They'll say '4 CPUs' when really they mean 2 physical CPU's each with 2 cores. They'll also say '2 CPUs' with regard to their older kit pre multi-core chips.

I believe our 3040's and 6070's are all single core processors and 6080's are dual core, not that helps answer your question much ;-)

Darren

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Willeke, Jochen Sent: 18 February 2009 08:24 To: Todd C. Merrill Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Netapp CPU types

Hi guys,

so thanks a lot for all the replies...

To put things to an end and summarize the results:

FAS6030 and FAS6040 are quite the same compared to CPU specs (still not 100% sure about the layout :D) The biggest difference seems to be the onboard FC is 2Gbit on the 6030 and 4Gbit on the 6040.

Thanks again for your time and regards

Jochen

-----Original Message----- From: Todd C. Merrill [mailto:tmerrill@mathworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:05 PM To: Willeke, Jochen Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Netapp CPU types

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Willeke, Jochen wrote:

i am wondering if anybody has an official overview of netapps

controller

hardware, and espacially the CPU types.

I found different sources telling me different things. e.g. i found an article on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetApp_Filer)

saying

that the FAS6040 is one die with dual-core. A poster from netapp

states

that it has two single-core dies.

Can anybody sched some light onto this?? My biggest interesst is how

the

FAS6040 compares to the FAS6030.

Here's some data on the 6030:

http://www.spec.org/sfs97r1/results/res2006q2/sfs97r1-20060425-00258.htm l 2.6-GHz AMD Opteron(tm) 852 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip (The 6030A is a clustered pair, so 2 cores, 2 chips per head)

The total results don't have a 6040, though:

http://www.spec.org/sfs97r1/results/sfs97r1.html

and very little NetApp on the new sfs2008 benchmark so far:

Until next time...

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Thank you for KB link! Exactly what I have been looking for :)

С уважением / With best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüβen

--- Andrey Borzenkov Senior system engineer -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Gerald Villabroza Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:56 PM To: Willeke, Jochen Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Netapp CPU types

I've got a 6040A (2 heads configured for high availability), and here's the important part of the RLM log:

#### Portions Copyright (c) 2005 Network Appliance, Inc. All Rights Reserved BIOS Version: 1.5X1

CPU= AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252 X 2 Testing RAM. 512MB RAM tested 16384MB RAM installed Fixed Disk 0: STEC NACF1GM1U-B11 ####

According to AMD's documentation the Opteron 252 is available in single or dual cores, the 6040 has single cores.

See this NetApp KB for authoritative information: https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb21345

As for RAM, the 6030 has 8GB and the 6040 has 16GB.

See this NetApp documentation for information: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel7261_vs/html/ontap/filesag...

-=--=- gerald villabroza <geraldv at stanford.edu> technical lead, its storage, stanford university

On Feb 16, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Willeke, Jochen wrote:

Hi toasters,

i am wondering if anybody has an official overview of netapps controller hardware, and espacially the CPU types.

I found different sources telling me different things. e.g. i found an article on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetApp_Filer) saying that the FAS6040 is one die with dual-core. A poster from netapp states that it has two single-core dies.

Can anybody sched some light onto this?? My biggest interesst is how the FAS6040 compares to the FAS6030.

Regards

Jochen

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