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We fastly ramping up UltraSPARC T2. Here you see: 12 E10000k, only a little bit short of a quarter Terabit per second networkbandwith, 0,75 Terabyte per second memory bandwith, 96 cores, 192 integer pipelines, 96 crypro accelerators, 96 floating point units, 768 threads, 768 virtual processor. Imagine this processors in some nifty boxes, with a nice silver finish, 1 or 2 rack units high. Consuming only 1200 Watts for the processors. Imagine the load this babies can handle. 5 years ago, you had to fill a complete datacenter for a similar performance. Now it´s a small tray of CPUs (respective 12 or 24 rack units). Simply mind-boggling. But it´s even getting better: In the near future you will have this sheer power in only three machines.

Ein für Heise-Verhältnisse erstaunlich guter Artikel über Niagara II.

PS: Ich bin uebrigens immer mehr der Meinung, das Heise unerträglich IBM-minded ist. Dieser Artikel feiert wieder Dinge ab, die eigentlich hinterfragenswürdig sind. Das Power Capping schreit doch wieder nach Benchmarketing. Jede Wette, das wir entweder Benchmarks über Power 6 ohne Capping sehen werden, wenn es um Geschwindigkeit geht (dann aber unanständig hohen Verbrauch) oder mit Capping (wenn es darum geht, wie sparsam die Kiste ist), aber nicht mit beidem gleichzeitig. Und die gross herausgestellte Variante der Interchip-Verbindung erinnert mich irgendwie fatal an das , was Sun seit den E10K/E15K-Zeiten macht. Aber das nur am Rande.

Realworldtech offers an analysis about Niagara II in Return of the hydra:

This could put Niagara II at performance parity with the competition, and a lead in performance/watt. Either way, it is encouraging to see that Sun will continue to invest in novel architectures.

You can download the presentation about the Niagara II. You will find it here. Apropos presentation: Yesterday i´ve heard an internal presentation about an upcoming product, that made me almost speechless in some parts. No i won´t tell you which product, but it will be really really cool.
(via Systemhelden)

I looked for a project into the SPEC website today and saw that the T2000 still leads the SPECweb2005 benchmark by roughly 4000 points. And this benchmark was made on the T2000 in November last year. Even the new Woodcrests stopped short of 10000 points and that were already fully blown 4 core systems (maximum for Woodcrest right now). Now keep in consideration that Niagara II already runs in our labs. Interesting times . Well ... Rolf, we should do the power meter gag again next cebit

ZDnet reports in Sun boots server with Niagara II chip:

The Niagara II system booted on May 26, spokesman Alex Plant said, about three months ahead of the late August or early September schedule

and

In addition, Niagara II has built-in 10-gigabit-per-second Ethernet networking, multiple floating-point units to speed mathematical calculations, and new encryption and decryption abilities.