Bob2002
ULTIMATE Member
Here's a reasonably interesting keynote speech from Sun about their new products based on the Niagara (UltraSPARC T1) chip. It can run with up to 8 separate cores on it, with four threads per core, so oddly enough it's great for multi-threaded apps; though the current model shares only a single FPU between them (due to change for Niagara II in 2007). It's also low relatively power. Apart from talking about the chip's engineering, it focuses a lot on the advantages for data centres and the fact that people like eBay and EDS, who speak in person, just often run in problems with having enough electrical power for traditional servers. There is also a fun free data centre builder app that lets you cost out how much performance you are getting for your money - http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/simdatacenter/index.jsp .
By the way Sun _really_ hates Dell as you will see in the promotional videos they show e.g. "Ice Station Xeon". The old x86-64 ad, below, is mild compared to the keynote videos. :laugh:
By the way Sun _really_ hates Dell as you will see in the promotional videos they show e.g. "Ice Station Xeon". The old x86-64 ad, below, is mild compared to the keynote videos. :laugh:
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