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SPARC del ingles Scalable Processor ARChitecture es una arquitectura para el conjunto de instrucciones que es capaz de ejecutar una CPU
Ashlee Vance: "Sun's UltraSPARC T1 stands as one of the more unique processors on the server market at this time. "
Interesting public statements from Sun execs about internal politics.
Ashlee Vance: "Sun will only start generating serious profits if this Bechtolsheim gear sells well. The kit is key to Sun's immediate ambitions and to its goal of putting a thin client and OpenSolaris in every mud hut in Africa." Nice piece.
Robert Milkowski does some production benchmarks: "T2000 is over 4x faster than IBM dual Xeon 2.8GHz!"
Shankland: "Well, that didn't take too long."
More coverage of the OpenSPARC specs released recently.
Ashlee Vance: "There's something appealing about running a couple copies of Linux across one of the UltraSPARC T1-based boxes."
Timothy Prickett Morgan on OpenSPARC
Stephen Shankland on OpenSPARC
Q&A with Marc Tremblay -- a Sun Fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm's Scalable Systems Group.
Paul Murphy: "It would take somewhat more than eight 3.2Ghz Intel Xeons to match one UltraSPARC T1 at 1.2Ghz. Similarly, it would take roughly four IBM Power5+ dual core machines."
"Sun has taken another step to leverage open-source design so that developers can create more servers based on its Sparc chip architecture."
"Sun has released the design of the OpenSparc T1 under the terms of the GPL. Great news, thanks Sun!"
"Sun is doing something that no other major hardware vendor has done. They're releasing the plans for their Niagara design as open-source. Yes, that means you can hack the hardware and chips to your heart's content."
Timothy Prickett Morgan: Sun is getting some serious backing for the OpenSparc project. The University of California at Santa Cruz is contributing source code for performance simulators for the chip.
David Yen, executive vice president of Sun's scalable systems group: "We want to accelerate the whole industry to reach multi-threaded capabilities."
Sunil Joshi, senior VP of design tools, performance and quality assurance at Sun: "This is the first time that such a complex hardware design has been released under GPL."
InfoWorld: "Sun has created an opportunity for developers to get involved with the Sparc system, whether it's universities doing studies or engineers building new systems in developing countries like India, China or Hungary."