Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jul 2007 22:01 UTC
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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Fascinating concept, but it will be interesting to see if it gets traction in the market. From what I can tell, the Niagras haven't exactly gone gangbusters yet.
On what basis is that assumption being made - sure, Sun doesn't run around everytime they make a sale, but I am sure, given the sales volume so far, that things are going well.
Its going to take a while for Sun to get back on track - they made the first good move, getting rid of Scott, and now their focus is on products and addressing customer needs rather than senselessly bashing Microsoft.
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n what basis is that assumption being made - sure, Sun doesn't run around everytime they make a sale, but I am sure, given the sales volume so far, that things are going well.
I haven't been able to find any sales numbers on the T1s, but even in Sun's blogs I don't see much about it, nor do I see Sun enthusiasts going crazy about them (they seem primarily focused on all things [Open]Solaris. In the general market, I haven't seen any deployment, nor have I seen anything in the non-Sun sphere regarding them. Anecdotal, to be sure, but it still seems that it hasn't given any existing platform (non-Sun or Sun) a run for it's money. Yet, at least. It may be an idea ahead of its time.
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While I certainly can't vouch for the total sales numbers of the Sun systems with the Niagra processors in them, I can say that my company has 120 Sun T-2000 servers in production right now, each of them with an eight-core Niagra processor in it. I don't know how many T-2000's we have that aren't customer-facing, just the 120 in our datacenters.
They run pretty darned well too!
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Fascinating concept, but it will be interesting to see if it gets traction in the market. From what I can tell, the Niagras haven't exactly gone gangbusters yet.