Sun Drives Multithreaded Processor Innovation with New UltraSPARC ...
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Throughput Computing is the underlying strategy of Sun&#39;s new family of UltraSPARC processors designed to significantly increase real-world application performance.
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Latest and greatest processor offers substantial advances Sun has announced the UltraSPARC T2, which it has dubbed the world's fastest commodity microprocessor.â¦
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Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday was set to announce its UltraSparc IV+ microprocessor, the last significant upgrade to the company's processor line before it begins shipping the redesigned chips it calls "throughput computing" processors, and hands over the task of building chips for the bulk of its systems to Fujitsu Ltd.
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Massively parallel processor to 'change the world', apparently
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Intel ignited a new round of competition with Sun Microsystems and International Business Machines today by announcing plans to bring its most advanced chip-making technology to its Itanium line of business chips for the first time.
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Latest Athlon 64 processors feature advanced manufacturing technology.
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Start-up Simply RISC builds a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' open-source UltraSparc T1 chip.
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Sun Microsystems&#39; latest edition of its Java platform offers improved performance and scalability, better system monitoring and management, and an updated look and feel for the desktop client
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Intel on Monday is expected to detail Tukwila, its next generation of 64-bit Itanium processors that are used in enterprise servers.The new processor, due for release by the end of 2008, has a quad-core design that doubles the performance of systems with&#160;Intel&#39;s Itanium 9100 dual-core processors, said Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel.Tukwila will be detailed during a session&#160;at the International Solid State Circuits Conference&#160;in San Francisco this week.The processor will run at up to 2GHz and include the QuickPath Interconnect system architecture with an integrated memory controller for improved communication links between system components, Rattner said. The architecture, different from Intel&#39;s x86 architecture, is designed to support data-intensive applications. The processor works with Unix, Linux and Windows Server OS software.The boost in performance provided by Tukwila will be an upgrade for the set of developers writing applications for Itanium processors, which are targeted at vertical markets with data-intensive applications, like data warehousing, said Richard Doherty, director of analyst firm The Envisioneering Group.The QuickPath Interconnect architecture will also be part of Nehalem, Intel&#39;s next-generation x86 processor due out later in 2008. In the first public demonstration of the&#160;Nehalem processor&#160;at Intel Developer Forum at San Francisco last year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said QuickPath Interconnect helps Nehalem deliver better performance-per-watt and better system performance.The Tukwila architecture will include 30MB of on-die cache, a 10 percent increase over the current Itanium. It will also include dual-integrated memory controllers, Rattner said.Tukwila is targeted at servers running enterprise applications, so the design includes an advanced RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) feature to reduce data corruption and ensure reliable system performance, Rattner said. Advanced RAS features correct errors that may occur when data is being crunched on a processor.The system is built on a record number of transistors, Rattner said. &quot;To our knowledge, that&#39;s the first 2 billion transistor [microprocessor],&quot; he said.The Tukwila processor will be manufactured using the 65-nanometer process technology. Intel will skip the 45-nanometer process and jump to the 32-nanometer for the Tukwila processor upgrade, code-named Poulson, said Susan Tauzer, director of Itanium marketing at Intel. No release date was provided for Poulson.Intel is working closely with Microsoft, Novell/SUSE, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard, and other key OS, system and application vendors on the delivery of Tukwila systems, Tauzer said.
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InfoWorld - As Sun Microsystems prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices&#160;that will power the computer arrive on time to deliver one of the machines to its first customer.
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AMD and IBM announced a collaborative breakthrough in processor technology today, marking the first use of two new techniques that advance speed and performance without requiring more power.
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(InfoWorld) - As Sun Microsystems prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from Advanced Micro DevicesÂ that will power the computer arrive on time to deliver one of the machines to its first customer. Sun is going to introduce its Constellation system at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, at which other supercomputer makers are gathering and at which a twice-yearly list of the world's Top 500 supercomputers is to be released Wednesday. IBM, whose Blue Gene/L supercomputer wasÂ No. 1 in a November 2006 Top 500 listÂ based on system performance, will introduce what it says is a still faster Blue Gene/P Tuesday. Sun chose the AMD Opteron quad-core chip,Â code-named Barcelona, over rival Intel'sÂ quad-core Xeon 5300 chip, because it believes AMD's will be "the fastest chip on the market this year," said Andreas Bechtolsheim, chief architect and senior vice president of the systems group at Sun. "We are still hopeful that they will deliver the chips on time." Sun also hopes Constellation can be out in time to be considered for the November Top 500 list. AMD's stock was downgraded June 6 by some investment analysts who questioned the chip maker's ability to deliver Barcelona on time. But AMD spokesman Phil Hughes said Monday that "we're still on track" for a Barcelona launch in the third quarter. Constellation is targeting IBM, which held an industry-leading 47.8 percent market share on the earlier Top 500 list, because its Blue Gene line is "the fastest machine out there," Bechtolsheim acknowledged. But Sun's Constellation is built with open industry standard components, such as x64 processors, Sun blade servers, Sun Fire x4500 storage, and open source Solaris or Linux operating system software, while IBM's Blue Gene is built from custom-made components. "Our observation is that industry standard open architecture has caught up with special-purpose computers. That's what we really mean to say here," Bechtolsheim said. Sun believes that building a supercomputer from custom parts takes too much time and costs too much money to build. But building a custom machine may allow IBM to pull further ahead of the rest of the field. IBM claims in a news release that the coming Blue Gene/P has triple the performance of version L, including a potential top processing speed of 3 petaflops (P flops). A petaflop is 1,000 trillion flops (floating-point operations per second), a measure of how many computer calculations can be made in that time. Sun says the Constellation features a total 131,072 processor cores, can operate at up to 1.08 petaflops, has 100TB of memory, and an input-output (I/O) speed (the speed at which data can be moved in and out of the central processing unit) of 3TBps. A terabyte is 1 trillion bytes. The Top 500 supercomputers list, compiled by university researchers in the U.S. and Germany, ranks supercomputer systems that are usually operated in government or university research centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Sun is in the process of building a Constellation supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) at the University of Texas in Austin. The TACC received a $59 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2006 to build the supercomputer.
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InfoWorld - Advanced Micro Devices is undaunted by rival Intel&#8217;s recent headline-grabbing announcements of 45-nm (nanometer) processing technology and a deal to supply Xeon chips to Sun Microsystems.
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Chip maker plans for smaller, faster, less power-hungry processors.
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Blog: The graphics chipmaker has a new lineup of chips that can be plugged into servers or workstations to boost the performance of scientific computing applications.
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New server is designed to run AMD's upcoming Opteron chips.
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SAN FRANCISCOâSun Microsystems Inc. next week will roll out two new servers featuring its UltraSPARC IV processors, a Sun executive said Friday.