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what is the difference between sparc and x86 servers?

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Hari Reddy

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Sep 5, 2010, 1:00:20 PM9/5/10
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what is the difference between sparc and x86 servers?

Steinar Haug

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Sep 6, 2010, 7:23:42 AM9/6/10
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> what is the difference between sparc and x86 servers?

Processor architecture is a good start. But it has nothing whatsoever
to do with SDH/Sonet.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no

Hari Reddy

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Sep 21, 2010, 1:58:03 PM9/21/10
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those who are working on NMS/EMS servers can answer this??

Hari Reddy

Huub van Helvoort

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Sep 21, 2010, 5:27:10 PM9/21/10
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Hello Hari,

You wrote:

A sparc is a (micro) processor, an x86 is also a (micro)
processor but different.
Sparc processors are normally more powerfull because the
hardware architecture is different.

The software that runs on these processors (the operating
system) can be developped to give the same behaviour to the
user and the applications e.g. NMS/EMS systems.
NMS/EMS software is in general written in a high level
programming language and the compiler will translate this
language into the code that runs on a particular operating
system.

So: the difference is mainly hardware and performance.

Regards, Huub.


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Hari Reddy

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Oct 14, 2010, 3:15:41 AM10/14/10
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Good Answer..Thanks Hubb..

ashish...@gmail.com

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Feb 1, 2013, 5:56:27 AM2/1/13
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Hii


They are both CPU types. Intel mainly make what are known as x86 processors which have

a particular instruction set and conform to whats known as a CISC ( Complex Instruction

Set ) type - These are also made by AMD. This means most instructions are implemented

in silicon. The SPARC architecture is a RISC ( Reduced Instruction Set ) type where

they implement a lower number of instructions in silicon which makes each instrucion

faster and then other instruction are made from combinations of the hardware based

ones.
Another major difference is the byte ordering in that the bits are Big Endian in SPARC

and little endian in Intel / x86 i.e. BE reads bytes left to right, LE is right to left
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