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Developing And Tuning Applications On UltraSPARC T1 Chip Multithreading Systems
White Papers CMT technology, like that available in the UltraSPARC T1 processor, provides a new thread-rich environment that drives application throughput and processor resource utilization while effectively masking memory access latencies.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Configuring Solaris Cryptographic Framework And Sun Java System Web Server 7 On Systems With UltraSPARC T1 Processors
White Papers This paper gives a quick overview of several technologies that can provide an optimal platform for hosting Secure Socket Layer (SSL)-enabled web servers: Sun Java System Web Server 7, Solaris Cryptographic Framework, and servers using UltraSPARC...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Optimizing Oracle's Siebel Applications For The Sun Platform, Solaris 10 OS, And UltraSPARC T1 Processor
White Papers This paper discusses the performance optimization of a complete Siebel Enterprise solution on the Sun platform using UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC IV+ processor based servers. Also presented in detail is information on tuning the Solaris Operating...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam On UltraSPARC T1 And T2 Processor-Powered Servers
White Papers Electronic mail is a business-critical function in virtually every enterprise, and it is also one that is under constant attack. Well-known viruses such as Melissa, and worms like SoBig have propagated through email and have disrupted user PCs and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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. Sun will sell UltraSparc T1-based systems later this quarter; a likely launch time is Sun's quarterly Network Computing event on 6 December...
[November 14, 2005, 9:40]
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 Refreshes Server Lines
News Sun has begun selling a lower-end server using the UltraSparc T1 The UltraSparc T1 can run 32 threads total, and the T2 can run 64, said Fadi Azhari, director of marketing for Sun's Sparc server group.
[April 12, 2006, 10:20]
Start-up Boosts Sun's Open Source Plans
News A start-up 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 to adopt and modify open source designs for the processor.
[September 12, 2006, 8:45]
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. Sun's UltraSparc T1 has eight cores, each able to run four threads. UltraSparc architecture 2005, which defines the set of...
[March 21, 2006, 8:25]
Sun Servers Get New Virtualisation Option
News Sun plans to introduce a new feature in early January to let its UltraSparc T1-based servers run multiple operating systems simultaneously, partly matching abilities of rival machines from IBM and HP.
[October 17, 2006, 9:35]
Sun To Open Sparc's Doors
News In a bid to increase the relevance of its processor line, Sun pledged on Tuesday to make the underlying designs of its new UltraSparc T1 an open source project. Releasing the UltraSparc T1 details move is likely to appeal chiefly to academia, said...
[December 7, 2005, 8:30]
Niagara Gets Linux Virtualisation Boost
News OpenVZ, virtualisation software that carves a single version of Linux into separate containers for different tasks, now is available for computers using Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor. SWsoft, which launched the open-source OpenVZ project and bases...
[January 2, 2007, 9:02]
Sun Releases Sparc Specs In Linux Love Bid
News Sun Microsystems fulfilled a pledge on Tuesday to release UltraSparc chip details in an effort to make it easier to bring Linux and versions of BSD Unix to its systems. Sun also announced the availability of the UltraSparc specifications in...
[February 15, 2006, 8:00]
Sun Targets New Markets With UltraSparc T2
News But until now, the group has concentrated on issuing licences that allow others to produce UltraSparc chips. The company on Tuesday plans to announce its new UltraSparc T2 microprocessor, along with plans for servers based on the chip.
[August 7, 2007, 9:57]
Sun Promises To Make More Money
News It's also betting on systems based on the UltraSparc IV+ processor, which were in higher demand last quarter than Sun expected. Sun is banking on a major overhaul to its core server products — including the UltraSparc T1 Niagara-based servers and...
[February 2, 2006, 17:00]
Linux Gets PlayStation 3 Chip Support
News Torvalds accepted a number of patches Tuesday so Linux will run on Sun's UltraSparc T1 Niagara-based servers, according to David Miller, the lead Linux-on-Sparc programmer, who posted the news on his blog.
[March 22, 2006, 8:55]
Sun: Same Song, Second Verse?
News Before stepping down as chief executive, McNealy said he wanted to make sure Sun launched the UltraSparc T1 "Niagara"-based servers, the "Galaxy" line of x86 servers and the more traditional servers using the UltraSparc IV+ processor.
[April 26, 2006, 11:20]
Sun Moves OpenSparc Forward
News In addition, 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 start-up Simply RISC has released the design of its single-core variant of UltraSparc T1...
[October 3, 2006, 9:20]
Linux Back On Sparc
News Dave Miller, the lead programmer for Linux on Sun's Sparc processors, wrote on his blog on Friday he has fired up the open source operating system on Sun's new UltraSparc T1 Niagara-based server. The appearance of 32 separate processors for a...
[February 20, 2006, 14:10]
IBM's Chip Future May Woo Sun
Talkback Sun SPARC servers outships Power by over 2x and now with Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 servers, IBM can't touch them. HogWash! Why would Sun ever use the Power processor or Itanium for that matter? I think this is pure FUD from IBM.
[February 9, 2006, 21:25]
