Thorleif Wiik: Sun’s Niagara2 Processor

More and more information about the upcoming Niagara2 Processor is on the web.

What’s new about the Ultrasparc T2 Processor?

• 2nd generation CMT (Chip Multi-Threading) processor
• 8 Sparc Cores, 4MB shared L2 cache; Supports concurrent execution of 64 threads
• 2x UltraSparc T1’s throughput performance
• 10x UltraSparc T1’s improvement in Floating Point throughput performance
• Two 10G Ethernet ports on chip

Hope to see some SPECjAppServer2004 results for Niagara2 servers with Glassfish oder Bea Weblogic, soon.

Read the original article: http://www.wiik.de/blog/2007/08/03/suns-niagara2-processor/