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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 T2 and media reactionWill this make my Amiga 500 go faster? ...T2 performance and power consumptionIt's amazing that it is possible to get real performance improvements and a far lower power bill as soon as you look away from x86. Modern processors such as UltraSPARC T2 and several MIPS...

Tags: Network technology, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., UltraSparc T2

Discussion threads 2007-09-04

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

Additional Resources

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

Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!

Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!Um, that should be good enough I guessntIntel needs to spec a backplaneIt would be nice if Intel would speck out an 8x backplane that processor modules could plug into. That way multiple manufactures could build compatible modules and backplanes.With...

Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Servers, Network technology, Nehalem-EX, transistor, processor, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-27

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...

Tags: Blade servers, Databases, Enterprise software, Recruitment & Selection, Storage, PCI, P690, T5440, Oracle Real Application Cluster

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Sun's latest server packs a punch in performance while using less power

Sun Microsystems, along with Fujitsu, is introducing a compelling new energy-efficient server platform that is intended to address heavy-duty tasks such as server virtualization, consolidation or even something like Web 2.0 database transactions. The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server line runs on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus architecture with...

Tags: Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

  A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...

Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Thinking about multicore and software

Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...

Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-09

The obligatory 'Victoria Falls' post

For those who don't know, Sun's new T2+ machines extend the T2's CMT capabilities across multiple units to produce 16 and 32 core SMP machines capable of handling 128 and 256 concurrent threads respectively. Sun blogger Denis Sheahan provides a good overview of the current dual...

Tags: T2, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Performance Opportunity, Network Technology, Networking, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Sun revs its data center efficiency message

Sun Microsystems, which was the first major server company to qualify for utility company rebates for the energy efficiency of its technology, has upped the data center server ante with two new models in its CMT SPARC Enterprise server line. The two new systems, the T5140 and...

Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Material, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-04-12

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

Costs: Wintel vs. open source

One of the true wonders of our age is the ability lots of otherwise reasonable people have to tell you with every evidence of believing it themselves that PCs cost a few hundred bucks and last for years - and then go off to spend well over a thousand replacing...

Tags: Wintel, Hewlett-Packard Co., Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Hey, I love you too, guy

Here's a comment from not so frequent contributor "SO.CAL Guy": murph_z you should be the last person calling someone a zealot. your the biggest zealot on zdnet. your blog is near the bottom of the list for a reason. ...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Intel Xeon, Performance Management, Processors, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-01-24

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

Linux vs. Unix (Cost)

The MacOS X server discussion here two weeks ago included a comment from someone pushing the Linux/Unix distinction, my response pointing out that Linux is Unix and that people changing from something like HP-UX to Linux are changing Unix suppliers rather than OS architectures, and this response...

Tags: Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Advice to a former client

Advice to a former clientGood advice"if faith is the willed suspension of disbelief, enterprise scale windows is the paid version; a classic emperor's new clothes con - and Carson? well…"Will be joining Anton's quote on the wall:-)RE: Advice to a former clientOn Sun's CoolThreads/CMT:> the first products are out the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Good Advice

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

AIX vs. Solaris (4)

AIX vs. Solaris (4)Sun Ultra 24 WorkstationSun's first Intel based workstation with QUAD core starting at $995.http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/ultra24/index.xmlbetter than a PC - but still wrongAs a sysadmin I want my desktop to replicate the production system as closely as possible. i.e if I run on SPARC, I want a sparc desktop.That's...

Tags: Workstations, Network technology, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM AIX, X4500, Sun Microsystems Inc., T2, workstation, Sun Solaris, IBM POWER6, storage

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Solaris vs AIX: Price/performance

IBM's newest AIX products feature the Power6, Sun's the UltraSPARC T2. It probably makes sense, therefore, to base a data center hardware cost comparison as much as possible on these two technologies. Comparable scaling is a key issue, but there's enough consistency about the benchmark results both...

Tags: T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Networking, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-23