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Some people already know it, I got a new machine to play with.

It is a Sparc running Debian etch:

# uname -a
Linux zee 2.6.17-2-vserver-sparc64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 26 12:28:58 UTC 2006 sparc64 GNU/Linux

The kernel is not yet available in Debian, it is handbuilt. But I hope that this will change soon.

It is a small machine with some CPUs:

# grep ncpus /proc/cpuinfo
ncpus probed    : 32
ncpus active    : 32

It only have a little bit of RAM:

# grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:     33257432 kB

And really too less disk space:

SCSI device sda: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)
SCSI device sdb: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)

Yes, it is a T2000 from Sun with 8 real CPU cores:

cpu             : UltraSparc T1 (Niagara)
fpu             : UltraSparc T1 integrated FPU
prom            : OBP 4.19.0 2005/10/27 17:24
type            : sun4v

Each of the 8 cores can run 4 threads at the same time, Sun calls this CoolThreads, and Linux sees this as virtual CPUs.