A question for the list about the newer Sun Fire machines with on chip multi-threading. The new Sparc IV chips have dual cores that each hold the equivalent of two Sparc III chips in them. They have on chip multithreading stuff built in.
Has anyone using AOLserver had any problems with these new Sparc IV chips? I wouldn't expect it, but thought I'd ask as we are considering upgrading our AOLserver machines to the new Sun Fire boxes. Here is a standard SUN blurb about them: ---- begin ---- Sun Fires Up Midrange Servers Sun Microsystems Inc.'s latest midrange enterprise servers, the Sun Fire V490 and V890, offer new multithread processor technology and revamped operating system support. eWEEK Labs' tests show both will provide IT managers with a robust, scalable Unix platform for hosting midtier or back-end applications. The Sun Fire V490 and V890 feature Sun's latest UltraSPARC IV processors with CMT (chip multithreading) technology. The CMT architecture allows the CPU to run multiple threads in parallel, providing higher throughput for multithread applications. UltraSPARC IV CMT processors integrate two UltraSPARC III cores onto the same die, and each core has access to 8MB of L2 cache essentially, each UltraSPARC IV processor is equivalent to two UltraSPARC IIIs. The UltraSPARC IV CMT processors can run two concurrent threads per core, and, in the future, the architecture will allow Sun to scale the UltraSPARC to support 10 times the number of threads per core, Sun officials said. The CMT processor technology will greatly benefit multithread applications and server workloads, providing better throughput performance in network computing or databases. The Sun Fire V490 and V890 will also be the company's first server systems to bundle Solaris 10, which offers advanced features such as Solaris Containers (formerly N1 Grid Containers), system fault prevention, and enhanced server security and optimization capabilities. Both the V490 and V890 systems shipped in September and are priced aggressively. ---- end ---- /pgw [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
