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- Rocky dreams
- Everyone knows that Sun's ultraSPARC RT is dead. Right? Wrong - the strategic reason for not releasing it disappeared with the Oracle deal. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Paul Murphy, Sun UltraSPARC, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Blog posts 2009-09-19
- SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140, and T5240 Server Architecture: Unleashing the UltraSPARCT2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processors With Innovative Multi-Core Multi-Thread Technology
- Use of the Web is changing in fundamental ways, driven by Web 2.0 applications and the thousands of people who join the global Internet every day through a proliferation of new interactive devices. The character of applications and services is changing too. Increasingly, users don't need to install anything, upgrade...
- Tags: Web, T2, Sun UltraSPARC, Fujitsu Ltd., Sun Sparc, Multi-core, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Intellectual Property, Processors, Marketing, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Coolthreads vs hyperthreading
- Laudon's description of the differences between Sun's SMP capable coolthreads approach to multi-threading and Intel's hyperthreading is as concise, lucid, and simple as anything I could find - so over to him: by Paul Murphy
- Tags: HyperThreading, Performance, T1, Sun UltraSPARC, Instruction, Thread, Multi-threading, James Laudon, SMT, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Multithreaded Application Acceleration With Chip Multithreading (CMT), MultiCore/Multithread UltraSPARC Processors: UltraSPARC Processor Applications
- The proliferation of billions of devices - ranging from 3G cell phones to netbook computers - means consumers increasingly demand instantaneous access to information, whether the latest news story or a sports video clip. To meet this burgeoning demand, the processors that power modern networks must deliver huge improvements in...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Chip, 3G, Processors, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-08-01
- OpenSPARC: An Open Platform for Hardware Reliability Experimentation
- OpenSPARC is an open source community based around hardware design and experimentation aids for the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Chip Multi-Threaded CMT microprocessors. The UltraSPARC T2 processor is the industry's first "Server on a chip", with 8 cores, 64 threads and on-chip networking and security. The richness of the RTL...
- Tags: T2, Stanford University, Sun UltraSPARC, Experimentation, OpenSPARC, Network Technology, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-03-11
- Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processor-Powered Servers
- Electronic mail is a business-critical function in virtually every enterprise, and it is also one that is under constant attack. Well-known viruses such as Melissa, and worms like SoBig have propagated through email and have disrupted user PCs and corporate networks worldwide. Fraudulent email messages find their ways into inboxes...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., T2, Anti-spam, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Sun UltraSPARC, Server, e-Mail Message, Brightmail Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2007-12-07
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86
- I ran into a little story on siliconrepblic.com last week which started like this: Cost drives firms from UNIX to Linux 28.11.2007 - Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for...
- Tags: Staffing, Performance, Intel X86, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Sparc, Lintel, FTE, Linux Thing, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Sun Microsystems Power Center
- Fastest, most scalable and energy efficient systems. Sun is excited to announce multiple blade and rack systems based on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor. Sun's new x64 systems bring new capabilities powered by the Solaris OS and next-generation systems design. These world-class servers deliver some of the industry's top performance,...
- Tags: Processor, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Server, Sun Solaris, Servers, Processors, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Resource centers 2007-10-02
- Analysis of Sun's 'Niagara 2' UltraSPARC T2
- Sun Microsystems launched their brand new "Niagara 2" UltraSPARC T2 8-core CPU last Tuesday August 7th 2007 as the successor to the UltraSPARC T1 8-core CPU launched in November of 2005. During the launch Sun's executive VP David Yen took a few shots at big iron competitors IBM and Intel...
- Tags: T2, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Server, Analysis, Intel Corp., UltraSPARC T2, T2 CPU, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- The T2 and media reaction
- The UltraSPARC T2 announcements back on August 7th consisted of two separate stories. The first of these involved Sun's plan to sell it into the commodity processor market. Unfortunately almost nobody in the press understood either the announcement itself or where Sun's taking this, with the straight up treatment given...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Paul Murphy, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, UltraSparc T2
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- The UltraSPARC T2 and file security
- The UltraSPARC T2 and file securityjust wonderingHow many threads on a chip can I use until I will hit the limits on memory and I/O throughput, say for a properly written web-server application.Memory throughputActually much of the point of T2 is help overcome memory latency (I know, latency and throughput...
- Tags: Network technology, security, T2, Sun UltraSPARC
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- The UltraSPARC T2 and file security
- Almost two years ago I predicted that Sun's then pending T1 and subsequent T2 CMT machines would offer throughput levels roughly comparable to x86 machines producing the number of cycles you'd get multiplying Sun's CMT megahertz by their thread count -i.e that a T1 would produce roughly the throughput...
- Tags: Network technology, Data centers, Processors, NETWORKING, Paul Murphy, security, T2, T1, Sun UltraSPARC, rack, data center, performance
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Analysis of Sun's 'Niagara 2' UltraSPARC T2
- Analysis of Sun's 'Niagara 2' UltraSPARC T2WTF"Single threaded performance is so important in the server world because it essentially allows co-hosting logical or virtual servers to borrow each other's idle time and complete tasks so much faster"Why? That's the exact opposite of what I'd expect. T2 works by...
- Tags: Network technology, Servers, Processors, Virtualization, T2, server, context-switch, Intel Xeon, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Corp., analysis, Sun UltraSPARC
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Optimizing Oracle's Siebel Applications for the Sun Platform, Solaris 10 OS, and UltraSPARC T1 Processor
- This paper discusses the performance optimization of a complete Siebel Enterprise solution on the Sun platform using UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC IV+ processor based servers. Also presented in detail is information on tuning the Solaris Operating System OS tuning, Siebel 7.7 tuning, Oracle Database 10g server tuning, Sun storage tuning...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Solaris 10, Performance, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Siebel Systems Inc., Sun Solaris, Performance Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Processors, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Sun upgrades low-end servers
- Server maker updates its low-end servers with faster 1.5GHz UltraSparc IIIi processors. Sun Microsystems has upgraded its low-end UltraSparc-based servers with faster 1.5GHz UltraSparc IIIi processors, the company said Wednesday. The move has been expected since August, when Sun said it scrapped its UltraSparc...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Stephen Shankland
- News items 2006-09-13
- Sun's plan for open-source chips bears fruit
- Start-up Simply RISC builds a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' open-source UltraSparc T1 chip. A start-up called Simply RISC has built a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T1, an indication of interest in Sun's plan to encourage others to adopt and modify open-source designs for the...
- Tags: RISC, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Sun UltraSPARC, Chip, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Networking, Hardware, Components, Stephen Shankland
- News items 2006-09-12
- Configuring Solaris Cryptographic Framework and Sun Java System Web Server 7 on Systems With UltraSPARC T1 Processors
- This paper gives a quick overview of several technologies that can provide an optimal platform for hosting Secure Socket Layer SSL-enabled web servers: Sun Java System Web Server 7, Solaris Cryptographic Framework, and servers using UltraSPARC T1 processors. The several technologies discussed in this paper are Sun Java System Web...
- Tags: Web Server, Web, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Java, Sun Solaris, Web Servers, Processors, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-09-01
- The Megahertz Myth and the UltraSPARC T1
- The Megahertz Myth and the UltraSPARC T1CISC vs. RISCand RISC winning every time! If this is the case then WHY are people so GA-GA over x86 servers? Seems a tad fishy to me.So if Xeon's are waiting for memory, then shouldn't the slower in Ghz Xeon chips = the performance...
- Tags: Processors, Performance management, Network technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., RISC, CPU Core, CPU, CISC, performance, EPIC, T1, Sun UltraSPARC
- Discussion threads 2006-02-07
- The megahertz myth and the UltraSPARC T1
- Until quite recently Intel's basic sales pitch on its PC CPUs focused on the notion that higher megahertz rates automatically produce improved throughput and most of the PC market accepted that as reasonable. It wasn't, of course; but Apple has lost significant market share over this bit of misrepresentation and...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Intel Xeon
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Sun introduces UltraSparc T1-based servers
- Systems are part of eco-friendly campaignAt a press event in New York, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and Sun Executive Vice President David Yen unveil the Sun Fire T2000 and T1000 servers, which use the UltraSparc T1 processor. Yen explains how the chip is innovative and socially responsible.
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., David Yen, UltraSparc T1, Sun UltraSPARC, T1, server
- Videos 2005-12-06
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