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Huawei to ship Itanium hardware

...as other vital high-availability platforms, where it competes with IBM Power7, Sparc64 and Intel's own x86-64 high-end lines, such as the... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Jack Clark
Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

...O system boards are installed in each rack. Each board contains four Sparc64 VIIIfx CPUs with eight cores integrated into each chip. The board delivers... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Staff

Fujitsu spins out supercomputer from K Computer

...of 8.16 petaflops. PrimeHPC FX10 runs on Fujitsu's 16-core Sparc64 IXfx processors, the successors to the Sparc64 VIIIfx chips used in K... Read more

10 November, 2011

Japan takes Top500 supercomputer crown from China

...Sparc back, x86 relegated K Computer uses 68,544 eight-core 45nm Sparc64 processors, for a total of 548,352 processing cores. "The Sparc architecture... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM updates Power7 hardware

...processors has been dropped from 3GHz to 2.4GHz. Power7s compete with Sparc64, Itanium and the top of Intel's x86-64 range, such as... Read more

14 April, 2011

Sun and Fujitsu update Sparc64 VII chips

Sun and Fujitsu on Tuesday announced new quad-core Sparc64 VII processors and an enhanced memory controller for the Sparc Enterprise server... Read more

14 October, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

Linux back on Sparc

...s goals with the Niagara work is to "reinject some life into sparc64 port", according to a presentation he gave in January at an Australian... Read more

20 February, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Sun-Fujitsu collaboration plan slips

...2004, Sun and Fujitsu had planned to deliver servers using Fujitsu's Sparc64 VI Olympus processor beginning in mid-2006. Instead, higher-end models with... Read more

26 January, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Solaris boost from Fujitsu

...Itanium processor, Fujitsu has upgraded a separate product based on its own Sparc64 processor. Five models of the company's new PrimePower machines now are... Read more

19 May, 2005 by Stephen Shankland
Photos: Sun's Sparc Enterprise servers

Photos: Sun's Sparc Enterprise servers

...accommodates as many as four of Fujitsu's 2.15GHz dual-core Sparc64 VI "Olympus" processors. The server is 10.5 inches tall and houses... Read more

18 April, 2007 by ZDNet UK

Sun-Fujitsu effort produces Sparc servers

...Server systems are jointly designed, but they use Fujitsu's dual-core Sparc64 VI "Olympus" processor and Sun's Solaris operating system. They range from... Read more

17 April, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

Sun speeds UltraSparc amid analyst concerns

...Advanced Product Line" models co-developed with Fujitsu and using Fujitsu's Sparc64 processor. Next come new variations in Sun's own line. The company... Read more

4 April, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

Sun loads 16 cores into 'Rock' chip

...2007 from multicore pioneer IBM, will have only dual cores. A Fujitsu Sparc64 processor due in 2008 will have four cores. Defining what exactly constitutes... Read more

8 December, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

AMD climbs supercomputing league table

...s Opteron. The three Sparc systems are Fujitsu models using Sun's Sparc64 processor Read more

14 November, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Sun and Fujitsu to boost Sparc speed

...processors, Sun's eight-core Niagara 2 and Fujitsu's dual-core Sparc64 VI, run Sun's Solaris operating system. However, they are aimed at... Read more

11 October, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

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