Into the multi-core ERA Sun Intermediate enterprise computing

Computational science is always evolving. "We are at a turning point in the history of computational science, from continuity to multi-core design," said Dave Patterson, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. "In terms of computing architecture, from 2005 onwards, the industry's consistent view is that over the next 10 years, we will see dozens of to hundreds of cores from one processor, including dedicated and asymmetric kernels, providing hundreds of and thousands of threads that can be executed in parallel." This is the inevitable development of the industry, but also to deal with the current computational framework of energy consumption and heat dissipation problems.





&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; When multi-core computing is still in its infancy. In the 2005, Sun has been able to deliver server products that execute hundreds of threads at the same time, walking in the forefront of multi-core computing. Sun's multicore computing is based on dual responsibility for the environment and the economy. Sun believes that the increase in computational performance should not be at the expense of high energy and space consumption; if multi-core and multithreaded architectures are used, the processor's structure can be simpler and clock frequencies are not too high to reduce the power consumption of the processor. However, if more threads are processed in the same processor chip, the server size can be reduced greatly under the same computing task, thereby compressing the room space occupied by the server. Today, Sun's revolutionary "chip multithreading" technology has undoubtedly led to the trend of multi-core computing.





at present, Sun's multi-core computing processor represents the UltraSPARC T2 processor, the industry's first processor to bring together the main features of multiple systems, including virtualization, signal processing, network connectivity, security features, floating-point units and accelerated memory access, and so on, A new breakthrough in computing architecture has been achieved. Because all of these functional units are integrated into a silicon chip, this reduces costs, improves performance, reliability, and effectiveness, making it the best choice for multiple applications from network devices to high-performance computing or storage devices, and opens up new avenues for productivity improvement.





Now, Sun is introducing multi-core computing into the intermediate customer market. With Sun-SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers based on the UltraSPARC T2 processor and sun blade T6320 blades, Sun brings multi-core and multi-threaded technologies into the middle market in full, Help mid-level customers achieve more computing performance with lower energy and space consumption while minimizing the impact of it on the environment.





industry's successful experience proves that good system design can bring greater benefits. Sun has addressed a number of technical challenges in terms of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Sun's x64 and CMT servers are created using a unified design approach developed by the chief System architect Andy Bechtolsheim, which employs a unified system architecture design and chassis with high reliability from design to ensure maximum system uptime. A component that can always heat exchange at a fixed position, provides a simple way to maintain system maintenance, and shortens maintenance time.





Sun's new T2 series server, it is the result of Sun's adoption of an industry leader in both the x64 server and the CMT (Chip multithreaded) Mass production server architecture, and the result of Sun's integration of extremely high performance and computational density within the footprint of one of the other vendor's systems. Like the recently launched Sun Fire X4450 and X4150 servers with the four-core Intel Xeon processor, these new systems enrich and extend the server packages that Sun provides to customers to address many of the thorny key issues in the data center area, and in performance, Computing density and efficiency are superior to other manufacturers of similar products in the market.