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Utilizing Predictors for Efficient Thermal Management in Multiprocessor SoCs

Utilizing Predictors for Efficient Thermal Management in Multiprocessor SoCs

...reactive and predictive thermal management techniques, and provide extensive evaluations on an UltraSPARC T1 system as well as on an architecture-level simulator Read more

1 January, 2011

Photos: Digital galaxies and the supercomputers behind them

...The Quintor cluster was installed in February 2004, and has 512 Sun UltraSparc IIIi 1GHz processors and 576GB of memory. To find out more about... Read more

15 September, 2010 by Nick Heath

Sun brings UltraSparc IV to low-end servers

Olympus will feature dual cores and is essentially combining two Fujitsu UltraSparc chips into one. Meanwhile, Niagara is being designed for applications such as... Read more

13 September, 2004 by John G.Spooner

Sun UltraSparc chips reach 1.2GHz

...announce its highest-end microprocessor to date on Wednesday, a 1.2GHz UltraSparc III that consumes less power than its predecessors. The processor, to be... Read more

18 September, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Sun speeds UltraSparc amid analyst concerns

Sun announced faster UltraSparc IV+ processors on Tuesday, just in time to address analyst concerns this... Read more

4 April, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

Sun to speed up low-end servers

...plans to announce on Wednesday that it has upgraded its low-end UltraSparc-based servers with faster 1.5GHz UltraSparc IIIi processors. The move has... Read more

13 September, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Start-up boosts Sun's open source plans

...called Simply RISC has built a single-core variant of Sun's UltraSparc T1, an indication of interest in Sun's plan to encourage others... Read more

12 September, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Sun set to redesign UltraSparc

...Microsystems will outline the direction in which it's headed with its UltraSparc processors and its datacentre management initiative. During briefings on Monday and Tuesday... Read more

24 February, 2003 by Martin LaMonica

Sun's UltraSparc III charges up

More than a year after its introduction, Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc III chip passed a key milestone, becoming the most widely shipped Sun... Read more

17 January, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

UltraSparc III to break 1GHz barrier

...will refresh its workstation lineup with a 1.05GHz version of the UltraSparc III processor due early next year, the company said on Monday. The... Read more

20 November, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Itanium vs UltraSparc: first tests

...800MHz Itanium in some cases neck-in-neck with Sun Microsystems' newest UltraSparc III chip and in some cases soundly beating it. Sun is Intel... Read more

31 May, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Sun targets new markets with UltraSparc T2

...selling microprocessors — again. The company on Tuesday plans to announce its new UltraSparc T2 microprocessor, along with plans for servers based on the chip. Sun... Read more

7 August, 2007 by Michael Kanellos

Sun loads 16 cores into 'Rock' chip

...phase with its processor plans, ripping up its road map, cancelling the UltraSparc V chip and relying instead on a partnership with fellow Sparc chip... Read more

8 December, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Sun moves OpenSparc forward

...Sun announced that the latest release of Gentoo Linux includes support for UltraSparc TI on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. It also noted that... Read more

3 October, 2006 by Karen Said

Setback for Sun as new servers use old chip

Sun is upgrading its lower-end UltraSparc-based servers — but the new systems will arrive with a chip family... Read more

31 August, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

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