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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Member since:2005-07-06
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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2005-07-06
Sparc64 leaves UltraSPARC in the dust. They are true OOO cores with both better IPC and higher clockspeed than Sun's UltraSPARC chips.
I don't know whether the system interconnect is any good, though.