Just read on Tim Bray's blog about Sun's new T5X20 server line featuring the UltraSPARC T2 Processor. The Sun people seem to be pretty excited about this as you can see from the raving blog posts and the IBM bashing, and I guess they should be. From what I can tell, these are low power (as in electricity) consumption with high power (as in processor) output. And if you were holding back on how to really make your app more concurrent, you should really be thinking about it now. With eight cores and 64 threads on one chip, integrated 10 GbE networking, crypto, and PCI-Express expansion, you have the jump on anything else on the market. The opportunities for system consolidation and virtualization are here like never before. Consumes less power per core and thread than any processor in its class – without compromising on performance. The UltraSPARC T2 processor gives OEMs a massively threaded, multi-core alternative to more power-hungry, less threaded processors from competing vendors.
Intense. It's like the PlayStation 3's big, bad, not fun brother. Amazon should pick up a few of these bad boys and stick them into the EC2 mix.
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