Sun Microsystems plans to announce its new UltraSparc T2 microprocessor, along with plans for servers based on the chip. The UltraSparc T2, an eight-core, 64-thread microprocessor will hit the market in the second half of the year.
Sun Microsystems plans to announce its new UltraSparc T2 microprocessor, along with plans for servers based on the chip. The UltraSparc T2, an eight-core, 64-thread microprocessor will hit the market in the second half of the year.
Though I am bias towards Sun, their hardware is in my view the best. They’re taking risks and I think it’s paying off.
Hopefully this is another great processor.
Sun has a Virtualization technology called Logical Domains (LDoms).
Here is a flash animation of a UltraSPARC T2 system booting 63 guest + 1 control domain = 64 domains, i.e, 1 per hardware strand.
http://blogs.sun.com/ash/resource/flashdemos/64-ldoms-on-t2.html
Here is one of A Linux SPARC and Soalris domain booting on the T2000. It also shows dynamic configuration (adding and removing) of cpus from a running domain.
http://blogs.sun.com/ash/resource/flashdemos/linux-ldom.html
Here is one showing redundant I/O service domains and virtual I/O failover all on a 2U T2000 machine.
http://blogs.sun.com/narayan/entry/ldoms_virtual_io_failover