Good article about
the speed bump for UltraSPARC IV+:
Server maker Sun Microsystems may be getting ready to launch the Advanced Product Line of Sparc clone servers with partner Fujitsu, but that doesn't mean innovation and process improvements were not under way for its own "Panther" UltraSparc-IV+ line of processors. And to that end, before the APL boxes come to market, Sun has announced faster Panther chips for customers who are running out of headroom.
I find this quite impressing: An architecture introduced 2001 is still capable to compete with modern architectures. And you can still use old boards in new systems, or new boards in old system. I don´t think that anybody has thought that Sun Fire would last that long at it´s invention.
Comments
Fri, 21.11.2008 17:32
Yes the Storage 7000 series is nice but... If Sun want to survive, and flourish, duri ng the coming economic d [...]
Fri, 21.11.2008 16:14
no sure if it makes sense to c ompare Sun-Technologie to GM? Sun is like the german car-com panies, number one in th [...]
Fri, 21.11.2008 10:24
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ community/arc/caselog/2008/685 /materials/tenaya-onepage-txt/
Fri, 21.11.2008 07:35
I will not disclose anything m ore than that
Fri, 21.11.2008 03:08
We have X4600s which have four 146GB HDDs in them. We want t he first two as mirrored root disks and the other two [...]