This website is reporting that Sun is going to announce its first Niagara-based server, the T2000, tomorrow at a network computing event. The T2000’s CPU, the UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) has 4, 6 or 8 cores; each of these cores has 4 threads, so that adds up to 16, 24 or 32 virtual CPUs. The maximum amount of RAM is 32GB DDR2. More information can be found in the documents section, or in the short summary here. A smaller version, dubbed T1000, is also supposed to be announced.
I’d like on of those for christmas
I’d like on of those for christmas
Have you been good this year?
Yep, it works great.
You should see the mpstat output: it’s, without exaggeration, impressive :o)
My CPU is a neural-net processor…a learning computer. The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn.
One of these things would be awesome for video editing. NLE programs are all about bandwidth, and this thing has it. It even has 4 GBE ports!
Perhaps Sun can take over from SGI then? Seeing as they just don’t seem interested in their original core-market anymore…
why do you say that. These types of chips should be database monsters, and that is suns core business. They also seem like a great bene for Java Application Servers, but I have not read any tech reviews with respect to J2EE on these chips yet.
What the poster (to whom you are replying) meant, was SGI’s core business:
Perhaps Sun can take over from SGI then? Seeing as they just don’t seem interested in their original core-market anymore…
So they here refers to SGI.
But what video editing requires are big ass FPU units, and sorry to say, but the Niagara cores are actually SPARC II – hardly what I would label ‘cutting edge’.
As number crunchers they may suck, but for sucking, chewing and spitting out data in the case of J2EE and database servers, they’re ideal.
I think the interesting thing will be where the Fujitsu SPARC processors fall into the product line up, in respects to Workstation and Servers – most importantly workstations; especially the low end Blade 150, which hasn’t been upgraded for god knows how long.
…now I have to wipe my drool off the keyboard again…
Lol well done for mentioning the Terminator joke I thought noone would 🙂
Phillip
What, it’s no joke, there really will be a T1000!
Hasta la vista, Phillip
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only about $1000 per core, too..
Not much competition for an X2 or a Cell unless Sun can sell them for less than $1000 per chip.
this is still very cool technology, it even runs CoolThreads, much cooler than those other threads, y’know, the ones that aren’t that cool. Stay away from those UnCoolThreads.
Sun = SkyNet
MUST DESTROY
Wow what an ad campaign they could make out of this if they could get the backing. =D
That’s the last shot from Sun for a while I think.
Think about that last year or so and the steady state barrage of stuff that Sun has been pumping out.
+ Free Solaris 10
+ OpenSolaris
+ StorageTek purchase
+ SeeBeyond purchase
+ $1/cpu Sun Grid
+ blogs.sun.com
+ Galaxy servers
+ GlassFish (OSS JEE server)
+ Postgres integration and support
+ ZFS
+ Freeing up all of SES
and now, the Niagras start rolling out.
I think the only things left are the Linux application layer, the actual Open sourcing of SES, getting Sun Grid out of beta, and new derivations of the Galaxy and Niagra lines.
Sun has blown their wad and drawn their line in the sand. They’ve done pretty much everything they’ve said they would, and seem on track to finalize it all.
Now it’s a matter of them making a go at it with the new strategy and see if they can boost revenue.
But all said, as an observer, it’s been an exciting 12-18 months, and I’m sort of sad to see it done. It’s not like Sun is going away, but every other week it seems Yet Another bombshell has been lobbed over the walls surounding Sun, Inc.
It’s going to start getting awfully quiet around here.
The amount of power these servers offer seems to be pretty damned impressive, what surprised me though was even at full tilt their electricity draw was very modest.
The price of that t1000 setup appears to be very respectable, if I was looking for a full time web server and or database system, I’d seriously consider going to sun with this offering.