On 30/01/18 05:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 03:49:54PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
The Sun T series looked very interesting to me when it came out. It
looked to me as if the market didn't take note. Perhaps too many had
already written Sun off -- at least to the extent of using their
hardware for new purposes. Also Sun's cost structure for marketing
and sales was probably a big drag.
Most developers were totally unprepared for parallel computing at
the time. So most people couldn't write software to take advantage of
the chips.
That was true of the non-Sun experimental architectures, like the Intel
432 and various VLIW machines. The Sun T machines ran ordinary SPARC
code without any changes or recompiling.
It very definitely wasn't for applications that already parallelized.
Our customers didn't have such things! Hadoop was almost unknown to them
then.
I suspect Sun had already fallen off too many people's radar, and the
performance improvement didn't change anyone's minds.
--dave
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