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UltraSPARC IV Processor Architecture Overview
White Papers This white paper provides an overview of Sun's UltraSPARC IV processor. The UltraSPARC IV processor is among the first Chip Multithreading (CMT) processors that follows Sun’s Throughput Computing strategy and continues the tradition of binary code...
[May 5, 2004, 1:03]
UltraSparc's future laid bare
News Sun is expected to revamp its core Unix server line on Tuesday with the debut of its high-end UltraSparc IV+ processor, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. The UltraSparc IV+, code-named Panther, will be available in midrange models...
[September 15, 2005, 10:05]
UltraSparc III to break 1GHz barrier
News Sun Microsystems will refresh its workstation lineup with a 1.05GHz version of the UltraSparc III processor due early next year, the company said on Monday. UltraSparc III, introduced more than a year ago, is the foundation of a new line of servers...
[November 20, 2001, 11:34]
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]
Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Siebel CRM Release 7.7 Industry Applications on Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC Servers and Oracle9i Database (64-Bit)
White Papers The benchmark comprised 8,000 concurrent users running Siebel CRM Release 7.7 industry applications on Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC T2000 and UltraSPARC III+ Servers and Oracle9i Database. This white paper describes the performance and scalability...
[December 18, 2006, 0:00]
Sun powers up low-end UltraSparc
News The V840, which had been code-named Cherrystone, comes with 1.05GHz UltraSparc III processors instead of 900MHz models. But the California-based company still prefers to sell machines that use its own UltraSparc processors.
[August 4, 2003, 11:35]
Sun's UltraSparc III charges up
News More than a year after its introduction, Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc III chip passed a key milestone, becoming the most widely shipped Sun processor. In the past quarter, for the first time, we are shipping more UltraSparc III than UltraSparc II...
[January 17, 2002, 13:53]
Sun to push UltraSparc V past 3GHz
News Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc V, two generations out from the newly introduced processor at the heart of the company's servers, will debut at 1.8GHz and extend past 3GHz, the company is expected to disclose on Tuesday.
[June 25, 2002, 9:37]
Sun rehires UltraSparc gurus
News Some of the original designers of Sun Microsystems' first UltraSparc processor have returned to the company as the server maker announced Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of chip designer Afara Websystems.
[July 24, 2002, 8:06]
TI to upgrade UltraSparc manufacturing
News Texas Instruments has begun making Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc processors on a more advanced manufacturing process and has built prototypes of a major new design, key steps in keeping Sun's products competitive.
[July 18, 2002, 8:24]
Sun UltraSparc chips reach 1.2GHz
News Sun Microsystems will announce its highest-end microprocessor to date on Wednesday, a 1.2GHz UltraSparc III that consumes less power than its predecessors. TI also is working on a "dual-core" prototype that places two UltraSparc chips side-by-side...
[September 18, 2002, 7:54]
Sun to supercharge UltraSparc with Afara acquisition
News Sun Microsystems has signed an agreement to acquire chip design start-up Afara Websystems to bolster the UltraSparc processors at the heart of its business, a Sun executive said on Tuesday. One key product is the UltraSparc IIIi, which likely will...
[June 26, 2002, 9:43]
Sun speeds UltraSparc amid analyst concerns
News Sun announced faster UltraSparc IV+ processors on Tuesday, just in time to address analyst concerns this week that the company's high-end servers had a sour quarter. The UltraSparc IV+ has led something of a comeback at Sun, with the company...
[April 4, 2007, 9:32]
Sun set to redesign UltraSparc
News At its conference for analysts this week, Sun Microsystems will outline the direction in which it's headed with its UltraSparc processors and its datacentre management initiative. Central to Sun's plans are a redesign of its UltraSparc line of...
[February 24, 2003, 15:29]
Glitch discovered in UltraSparc III
News Sun Microsystems has found a problem with computers using its new UltraSparc III processor, the company acknowledged Wednesday. But Sun already has had some problems with its new UltraSparc III chip, which is critical to its effort to keep IBM...
[April 5, 2001, 8:36]
Sun ditches UltraSparc V and Gemini
News Sun has stopped work on the UltraSparc V, a server chip that was supposed to come out late next year, and Gemini, a dual-core chip for Web servers, a company spokeswoman confirmed. The untimely death of the UltraSparc V and Gemini will in some ways...
[April 12, 2004, 10:15]
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...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Sun's UltraSparc doubles down for power
News Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc IV chip will debut in the second half of 2003 with two processors etched into the same slice of silicon, a technique that packs more computing punch, a company executive said on Monday.
[December 18, 2002, 8:48]
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...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Itanium vs UltraSparc: first tests
News Customers must recompile their software for the new chip and re-certify it for the new systems, she said, whereas Sun customers are guaranteed that software written for earlier UltraSparc chips will run unmodified on the UltraSparc III.
[May 31, 2001, 9:13]
