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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Member since:2005-07-08
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. I just went through a three month debacle with a customer who said they were experiencing performance problems with their application on our hardware. Until they brought in an outside consultant who deemed the hardware we were using was not he issue they insisted that we jump through hoops to fix their problems. As it turns out the performance problem was due to a complex security policy that they created and had not taken into consideration how much of a performance hit the security policy caused.
While Sun sells products and services and can assist in these cases, it is also up to the people who write and maintain applications to assist in the performance improvement process. The OS and hardware vendor can only go so far.
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2005-07-06
Hence the reason I said its the 'whole package' - its more than just hardware and operating system.