Sun's latest Niagara and Rock details have reached El Reg, and they confirm that the hardware maker is up to some very ambitious stuff. First off, Sun looks set for the imminent release of its first Niagara II-based servers - the T5120 and T5220 systems. Customers will see 1U and 2U boxes, respectively, each with one of the 'Niagara II' or (more formally) UltraSPARC T2 chips. It looks like the eight-core, 64-thread chip will arrive at 1.5GHz.
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How long before you add one of those beasts to your menagerie, helf? 
Where I could see that being utilized in a non-server space currently is with neural networks, if someone really wants to get into them. That, or ray-tracing, like POV-Ray, which AFAIK doesn't subdivide things up amongst threads in tiles currently, but can be used to render with one thread per frame, which, in that case, that'd be a great machine to play with Of course, most people don't feel a need to do computer animation to that degree at home...
Of course, for other computer geeks, this would be an interesting system (2048 hardware threads?) to run a true microkernel OS in...
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I think it's some retarded thing built into the OS comments that automatically puts the useragent of mobile devices in the comments. While I can understand their desire to to keep stats on mobile devices, it is rather pointless to post the useragent on the end of every comment.
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omfg...
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