Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu engineers on Tuesday promised significant performance increases with two next-generation chips, models that they hope will help keep the Sparc line relevant. Company representatives speaking at the Fall Processor Forum promised significant gains over the chips' predecessors - the first Niagara (now called UltraSparc T1) and the single-core Sparc64 V.
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2006-06-18
At least they didn't killed the sparc line as originaly announced. I'm gland that there still exist non x86 architetures, so I can still build stronger Fw machines.
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2005-07-06
They made some nice comparisons about how the Sparc64 VI is a huge improvement over the Sparc64 V but how does it compare to the UltraSparc IV+? I work in a shop that has UltraSparc servers and I would like to know what kind of performance boost the new generation of chips will give me.
On a related note, I SO want to play with the Niagra II chips. Eight threads per core, 5x increase on floating point, 1.4x increase on integer, etc. What's not to like?
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Well, the TPC benchmarks demonstrate its performance pretty good - one assumes that database benchmarks are going to be bandwidth and latency sensitive.
I'd say that Sun will be using their own interconnect, with the SPARC VI sitting ontop; its their CPU that is crap, not the processor itself.
Edit: Mind you, IIRC, Sun is a member of Hypertransport consortium, so I'm assuming that when Hypertransport surpasses Suns own technology, they're going to use it - IIRC, Hypertransport 3.0 looks *really* good on paper, that would be a great combo; SPARC IV + Hypertransport 3.0.
Edited 2006-10-12 07:47
Member since:2006-04-30
I'd say that Sun will be using their own interconnect, with the SPARC VI sitting ontop; its their CPU that is crap, not the processor itself.
I thought both Sun and Fujitsu will co-marketing the Sparc64 VI in the APL systems developed by Fujitsu. The only difference probably will be the badges and possibly the colour of the plastic.
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2005-10-09
I've been waiting for Niagra II, I love the original but with the advent of the second version, I don't believe I'll need to maintain a single x86 machine!
I am really liking the direction Sun has been heading and continues to move towards. If they keep this up, the company may yet have it's day in the "Sun" again. 
