Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th Feb 2006 17:23 UTC
Linux The Linux kernel has booted on top of the sun4v hypervisor on Sun's new Niagara CPU (just the kernel, there was no root filesystem). Sun has been very active in trying to get Linux support for their Niagara.
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RE: n HW threads
by Get a Life on Sat 18th Feb 2006 20:31 UTC in reply to "n HW threads"
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The Pentium D EEs have hyperthreading. They call them the "Pentium Processor Extreme Edition" now or some such. It isn't actually clear if SMT will be the norm in the x86 market in the near future, since neither AMD nor Intel have said anything (?) about it.

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