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Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced
two advances in chip multi-threading (CMT) for its SPARC architecture.
Sun successfully completed the tapeout (initial design completion for
first fabrication) of its new "Rock" processor and announced that it's
enhancing the performance, expandability and performance per watt of
its Sun Fire T2000 servers.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced
two advances in chip multi-threading (CMT) for its SPARC architecture.
Sun successfully completed the tapeout (initial design completion for
first fabrication) of its new "Rock" processor and announced that it's
enhancing the performance, expandability and performance per watt of
its Sun Fire T2000 servers.
"SPARC CMT and the Solaris operating
system are the foundations of Sun's business today and in the future,"
said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Sun Microsystems.
"The UltraSPARC T1 chip put us way ahead of the competition in
multi-core, multi-threaded processing, and generated tremendous
interest in our SPARC products among customers. Now with Rock we're
expanding CMT to the high-end. We'll be able to deliver the most
optimized platform for high-end Solaris based applications, and offer
industry-changing improvements in price performance across the entire
datacenter."
The "Rock" processor is Sun's next-generation,
high-end SPARC CMT product line, and its design is focused on
delivering the performance and energy efficiency of CMT technology to
high-end systems. Sun expects to deliver the first Rock-based systems
in the second half of calendar 2008.
Regarding the Sun Fire T2000
enhancements, the company is enhancing the performance, expandability
and performance per watt of its Sun Fire T2000 servers with support for
64 GB of memory and the new faster 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor. Sun
claims that by offering 64 GB of memory in both existing and new
systems, they are able to improve performance of memory-bound
applications by up to 20 percent while enabling the T2000 servers to
handle larger workloads and greater levels of application consolidation.
According
to Sun, the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor has already demonstrated up
to 30 percent higher throughput than the existing 1.2 GHz processor,
while delivering 2x higher performance, 5x higher performance per watt
and 9x SWaP than current competitive systems. These enhancements are
designed to enable customers to address the power, cooling and space
limitations that challenge datacenters today.
Sun says it is also
making great progress on the Niagara 2 silicon, and is on target to
deliver systems in the second half of calendar 2007.
In 2006, the
SPARC product line enjoyed significantly increased revenue growth with
the UltraSPARC T1. A year after the launch, the UltraSPARC T1- based
T1000 and T2000 servers now represent more than $100 million in revenue
per fiscal quarter for Sun, and have played a key role in helping Sun
achieve three straight quarters of server revenue growth, according to
the most recent IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.
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