Sun Fire T1000, Sun Fire T2000

Traditional processor design has long emphasized the performance of a single hardware thread of execution, and focused on providing high levels of instruction-level parallelism (ILP). These increasingly complex processor designs have been driven to very high clock rates (frequencies), often at the cost of increased power consumption and heat production.

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On November 14, Sun Microsystems announced the arrival of the long-awaited Niagara CPU called UltraSPARC T1, which is the first member of Sun's new multicore highly threaded SPARC processors.

Sun Fire T1000, Sun Fire T2000

If more powerful servers were also smaller, consumed less electrical power, and demanded less cooling, then the business value contribution of IT would improve.

Sun Fire T1000, Sun Fire T2000

Marked by the prevalence of web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), the emerging Participation Age promises the ability to deliver rich new content and high-bandwidth services to larger numbers of users than ever before.

Sun Fire T1000, Sun Fire T2000

Sun's Chip Multithreading (CMT) processor strategy for throughput computing will usher in a computing revolution that will dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of network computing by delivering performance and power efficiency that are orders of magnitude greater than contemporary processors.

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This fundamentally new approach to processor design enables the UltraSPARC T1 processor to be more suitable for dense rack-mount implementations in the data center than other contemporary processors.

Sun Fire T1000, Sun Fire T2000

Among the more important but perhaps less widely appreciated benefits of CMT design, is a dramatic overall improvement in system reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).

Sun Fire T1000, Sun Fire T2000

Changing the Economics and Ecology of the Data Center with Innovative SPARC Technology