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Secure Computing Case Study: Niagara Corporation
White Papers Niagara Corporation is one of the world's foremost producers of high-quality specialty and commodity steel bars. As they preferred a Linux-based, cost-effective solution with a large Unified Threat Management (UTM) feature set, the company selected...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
Niagara gets Linux virtualisation boost
News SWsoft, which launched the open-source OpenVZ project and bases its proprietary Virtuozzo product on it, created the port in response to a request by Jonathan Kinney, a data systems specialist at Advantagecom Networks who supplied a server for the...
[January 2, 2007, 9:02]
Niagara Health System Cures E-mail Mailbox Woes With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
White Papers Niagara Health System (NHS) represents Ontario's largest multi-site hospital amalgamation, comprised of eight hospitals serving 411,000 residents across the Niagara region. In order to reduce its IT complexity, NHS wanted a more cost-effective way...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
Ubuntu coming soon to Sun's Niagara
News Canonical will support Sun Microsystems' Niagara servers with the upcoming release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, the companies are expected to announce on Tuesday. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (long-term support) will feature support for the T1000 and T2000...
[May 30, 2006, 8:50]
Sun's Niagara chip moves into testing
News Sun Microsystems has completed the design of its Niagara processor, a crucial product in the server maker's effort to keep its own UltraSparc chip family competitive, a source familiar with the project said.
[May 12, 2004, 9:30]
Sun doubles thread performance with Niagara 2
News Sun's "Niagara 2" processor will be able to run 64 simultaneous instruction sequences, twice that of its predecessor, when it debuts in servers during the second half of 2007, a Sun engineer said on Tuesday.
[August 24, 2006, 8:40]
Sun to ship dual-Niagara servers in 2008
News Sun has finished the design of "Victoria Falls", a Niagara 2 processor variation for servers with two of the multicore chips, and plans to begin shipping the machines in the first half of 2008. Niagara 2 can execute eight threads per core, for 64...
[February 7, 2007, 9:23]
Sun prepares Niagara fanfare
News Sun plans take the Niagara plunge on Tuesday in New York, launching its new UltraSparc T1-based servers, which are a key part of the company's effort to restore its ailing server fortunes by catering to its core customers.
[December 6, 2005, 8:45]
Sun starts work on Niagara 3
News Sun engineers have begun designing Niagara 3, a second sequel to the company's ambitious lower-end processor. The company has begun selling servers using its first-generation Niagara chips, officially called UltraSparc T1, and plans to begin...
[October 19, 2006, 9:50]
Sun's high hopes for Niagara
News Sun's forthcoming Niagara processor performs well on a wide variety of tasks and shows greater ability than competing processors in multithreading a top Sun chip executive said. Niagara has eight cores, each able to simultaneously execute four...
[October 27, 2005, 17:00]
Low-spec Niagara on the way
News Sun's forthcoming Niagara chip has eight cores, but the company will sell versions with six or possibly even four, the company's top Sparc server executive said Tuesday. We will be offering the Niagara-based boxes primarily with eight cores and six...
[September 22, 2005, 9:25]
Sun hypes Niagara 2 power-efficiency
News Sun has been touting the efficiency of servers using its first-generation UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" processor, but it's promising greater gains with the chip's sequel. The first Niagara consumes about 70 watts running flat out.
[December 6, 2006, 8:23]
Workloads for Niagara: Customer Deployments of Sun Niagara CMT Systems One Year On
White Papers This paper explores customer adoption of the Niagara processor since its market introduction in December 2005, focusing on the range of workloads that are running today on this Chip MultiThreaded (CMT) platform.
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
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[June 23, 2006, 15:54]
Sun refreshes server lines
News The Niagara models are geared for lower-end server tasks such as hosting Web pages or Java programs where single-thread performance isn't as important and where computers often have many tasks running in parallel.
[April 12, 2006, 10:20]
Sun releases plans to build on Rock
News With Niagara II, due in the second half of 2007, and Rock, due in 2008, Sun will shift to a 65nm process. Sparc processors, Niagara and Rock, that use a more advanced manufacturing process. The current Niagara systems, which began shipping in...
[April 18, 2006, 9:25]
Sparc goes open source
News Sun on Tuesday plans to release the underlying design of its UltraSparc T1 Niagara processor under the terms of the GPL. Niagara for embedded computing devices, which often require low power consumption.
[March 21, 2006, 8:25]
Sun christens its power-saving processor
News Sun has given its newest processor a more permanent label than its "Niagara" code name: the UltraSparc T1. Along with its Sparc models - UltraSparc T1, a successor called Niagara II that can work in multiprocessor servers and Rock - Sun also has...
[November 14, 2005, 9:40]
Growing Financial Services Firm Streamlines Collaboration and License Management
White Papers For more than 138 years, First Niagara has continued to flourish as a financial services company in New York State by offering competitive services and by building strong relationships with customers and with the communities it serves.
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
Sun's pieces of eight
Leader It's preparing to introduce its eight-core Niagara top-end processor, but has been thinking aloud of shipping parts that don't quite make the grade as seven or six core options. If you make eight small cores instead of one big one, though, you'll...
[September 22, 2005, 13:50]
