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Platform Helps Customers Accelerate Delivery of
High-Performance Multi-threaded Applications; Available Today on
UltraSPARC T2-based Sun Netra Systems and Blade Servers
SANTA CLARA, CA March 17, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA)
today announced that Wind River has completed the port of Wind River
Linux 3.0 and Workbench development suite to Sun's chip multi-threaded
(CMT) UltraSPARC T2 processor. Wind River Linux 3.0 is the first
Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) available for Sun's open CMT processor
platforms and will run on Sun Netra T5220 servers and Netra CP3260 ATCA
Blade Servers, as well as the UltraSPARC T2 Reference Design Kit
available at http://www.sun.com/products/microelectronics/support.jsp. More information on Sun's Netra servers is available at http://www.sun.com/servers/netra/products.jsp.
With this announcement, Sun and Wind River are providing the networking
industry with a fully integrated, optimized and tested solution of the
industry's leading multi-core processing hardware and CGL, enabling
companies to quickly develop and deploy next-generation networking
applications.
"The combination of Sun's enterprise class UltraSPARC CMT platforms and
Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux gives telecom and networking system
developers a new and significantly superior vehicle for delivering
their most mission critical applications to enterprise and service
provider customers," said Mike Knudsen, vice president, Sun OEM.
"Implementing high-performance multicore processing solutions into
networking elements offers many benefits to telecom and networking
equipment providers," said Mike Langlois, general manager of the
Networking and Telecommunications Business Unit at Wind River. "By
leveraging an integrated solution like Sun's UltraSPARC T2 and Wind
River's multicore-aware Linux and development tools, equipment
providers can develop sophisticated applications that fully exploit the
use of each core for ultimate performance, cost and throughput
efficiency."
CMT and the Embedded Market
Today's announcement highlights the openness of Sun's CMT platform and
substantially expands the range of embedded system applications that
can be served with Sun's CMT technology. It also brings the benefits of
Sun's CMT processors, such as low power per thread, integrated crypto
functionality, dual on-board 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network
interface units, and industry standard bus interconnect technology, to
a wide range of embedded system applications such as load balancing,
routing, security and application acceleration.
In August 2007, Sun introduced the UltraSPARC T2 processor, the
world's fastest commodity processor. An eight-core, 64-thread
processor, the UltraSPARC T2 is powered by less than 95 watts (nominal)
with less than two watts per thread, boasts the most functionality, and
lowest wattage per core and thread of any processor in its class.
Read the original article: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-03/sunflash.20090317.1.xml
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