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Ariel Hendel: Ali G and Kanazawa on UltraSPARC T2 (nee Niagara 2) |
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Written by Ariel Hendel
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 07:53 |
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With the announcement of the UltraSPARC T2 processor it is time to spare you my tired words on life, technology, and the pursuit of happiness, and defer to two great video guests: Hirokasu Kanazawa and Ali G.
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Simon Phipps: More Open Chips |
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Written by Simon Phipps
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 07:52 |
As a member of the Interim Governing Board of the OpenSPARC community, I got a note a few days ago from the Sun Microelectronics team telling me some great news. The new low-energy, high-performance chip they have designed, codenamed Niagara 2, is now available as the UltraSPARC T2. But much more importantly, they're releasing all the source code for it under the GPL v2 and asking OpenSPARC to look after it.
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SPARC: Decades of Continuous Technical Innovation |
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Written by On The Record
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 07:25 |
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For more information on Sun's SPARC products go to: http://www.sun.com/processors/ |
Barton George: Ubuntu booted on UltraSPARC T2 |
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Written by Barton George
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 07:00 |
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I just got out of the UltraSPARC T2 launch about an hour ago. Pretty impressive stuff.
The new T2 (code named Niagara 2) chip is not dual-core, or quad-core but eight individual cores on one piece of silicon. Not only that but, unlike the chips from AMD and Intel, rather than having one thread per core, the T2 has 8 threads per core (in case you thought threads were only for sewing, think of a thread as an individual server that can run its own separate OS). Do the math (8 x 8) and you end up with 64 threads. Once again, pretty impressive stuff. |
Ashley Saulsbury: 64 domain capable (UltraSPARC-T2) chip launched today |
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Written by Ashley Saulsbury
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 06:34 |
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(There's a flash demo in here - so read on)
Today Sun launched the UltraSPARC-T2 processor.
This is the second generation in the Niagara processor family, and comes with twice as many processing strands, more cache, more memory bandwidth - and an amazing two 10Gb/s ethernet interfaces plumbed right into the heart of the on-chip memory system.
Of course this processor supports LDoms from the get-go, and the first systems will be delivered with LDoms technology. |
On The Record: UltraSPARC T2: World's fastest processor |
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Written by On The Record
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 06:17 |
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Sun today unveiled the UltraSPARC T2 (a.k.a. Niagara 2) processor.
Here is a "Top 10 Facts You Should Know About the UltraSPARC
T2" list from David Yen, executive vice president of Sun Microelectronics: |
Jonathan Schwartz: Sun Enters the Commodity Silicon Business |
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Written by Jonathan Schwartz
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 02:30 |
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We're
announcing the fastest microprocessor
we've ever shipped this week - delivering 89.6 Ghz of parallel
computing power on a single chip - running standard Java applications
and open source OS's. Simultaneously, we've said we're entering the
commodity marketplace, and opening the chip up to our competition. It's
probably worth explaining.
I've made the following statement before, but it bears repeating - what
do banks, oil companies, and telecom operators all have in common?
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Ashley Saulsbury: Linux in a LDom |
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Written by Ashley Saulsbury
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Monday, 06 August 2007 04:57 |
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I'm way late in posting this (been buried in other stuff recently), but in case you haven't heard David Miller and Fabio Massimo have Linux up and running in a LDoms guest using virtual devices.
Congratulations to Dave and Fabio on a truly stellar (no pun intended) job! |
Joerg Moellenkamp: Mercury News about Niagara II |
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Written by Joerg Moellenkamp
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Sunday, 05 August 2007 23:50 |
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Mercury News reports about Niagara II in Sun takes on AMD and Intel with new chip.
But i find HP´s stance most interesting: |
Thorleif Wiik: Suns Niagara2 Processor |
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Written by Thorleif Wiik
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Friday, 03 August 2007 07:00 |
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More and more information about the upcoming Niagara2 Processor is on the web.
Whats 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 T1s throughput performance
- 10x UltraSparc T1s 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/ |
Fabbio Massimo: SUN's LDOM hits 2.6.23 |
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Written by Fabbio Massimo
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Saturday, 21 July 2007 03:00 |
Yes and really proud of it..David
did an awesome work fixing the tons of bugs I have been reporting in
past couple of weeks with my super stress testing of the
implementation. I have to admit that he was also >< this close to
scramble the "black choppers" towards my house but that's usually a
good sign when I can piss him off this much :)
..because we did beat Xen ;)
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Alan Feldstein: OpenSPARC progress toward FSS |
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Written by Alan Feldstein
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 04:57 |
Do you remember when I said that "any SPARC-V9 implementation, including the OpenSPARC T1 processor, can be described by a functional/structural model in JHDL" and that "FSS should be able to verify OpenSPARC T1"? In fact, one of the goals of FSS is that it be able to verify any microprocessor that tries to implement SPARC-V9. That is what the Feldstein SPARC-V9 Simulator is for.
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