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Wednesday, August 26. 2009

Sanjay just gave me the kind OK to publish his Rainbow Falls presentation from the Hot Chips conference:

It gives you some interesting insight into the future development the the next gen CMT procs. His presentation focuses on the challenges you are facing, when you double the core count.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle, Technology at 19:25 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)
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Looks nice, but so did T1 and T2.
Hope it's not only the Rainbow that falls.

#1 uhm on 2009-08-26 22:35 (Reply)

looks interesting, but no word if the individual cores will be more powerful/faster?! also no info on clockspeed.

why do they write 'strands' and not 'threads' - is there a difference?

#2 bro on 2009-08-27 15:32 (Reply)

Strands is used by the HW designer to seperate them from the SW threads. Strands and HW Threads are the same.

#2.1 Jörg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-27 17:02 (Reply)

...und was macht der "Rock" ? Scheint ja doch gestorben.

#3 Simpli on 2009-08-27 16:45 (Reply)

Ach ... der Sun Mitarbeiter, der gekündigt hat lt. einem Kommentar von vor einigen Tagen ... Sie sollten wissen, was der Stand bei Rock ist

#3.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-27 17:01 (Reply)

Sad to see this presentation about all the problems with doubling the cores when IBM stole the show with all the benefits of improved cores and multiple cores.

#4 Jag Hoffen on 2009-08-31 16:04 (Reply)

I've read both presentations of IBM and i consider them as marketing material, where as the presentation about RF talks about the challenges of a many-core design. And at the end, Sun has solved the problems

At the end, Sun has solved the problems.

IBM will have the same problems soon. And i don't know if you have the presentations of Hotchips, but Power7 is a beast. I see no way that they will be able to manufacture this beast at an other than outrageous price point.

At the end HotChips is a technical conference

I think the second one is more interesting, but your milage may vary. 8 Cores is something Sun has done some years ago ...

#5 Joerg+M.+ (Homepage) on 2009-08-31 16:35 (Reply)

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