Sun unveils faster processor

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
09/27/05
Today's focus: Sun unveils faster processor

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* Sun's UltraSPARC IV+ processor
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Today's focus: Sun unveils faster processor

By Deni Connor

Sun last week unveiled the UltraSPARC IV+ processor, which the
company says is two to five times faster than previous
processors and can accommodate heavier workloads.

The UltraSPARC IV+ is contained in five Sun Fire servers - the
V490, V890, E2900, E4900 and E6900. These servers are powered
with 1.5-GHz processors and run the Solaris operating
environment.

Chuck Sears, director of research computing for the College of
Oceanic and Atmospheric Science (COAS) at Oregon State
University in Corvallis, Ore., is beta testing a Sun Fire V890
at COAS, where he is running scientific simulations and weather
modeling.

"The UltraSPARC IV+ brings new life into the company," Sears
says. "The processors over the past few years have not been very
efficient. With the UltraSPARC IV+ all our workflow processes
can efficiently run on this architecture. Before I would require
a whole rack of UltraSPARC 3 processors - now I just need a file
cabinet-sized box."

One of the most important features of the UltraSPARC IV+ servers
is that previous-generation UltraSPARC 3 and UltraSPARC 4
processors can be intermixed in the same server, allowing
upgrade protection.

"From an end-user perspective, mixing and matching processors
and keeping the high efficiency is important. They can handle
multiple threads so nothing stalls," says Sears, who has Sun
Fire V1280 servers, Sun Ray ultra-thin clients, a Sun Fire V440
and a Sun Fire E4900. He says he will upgrade to the V890.

Also, the processors can be swapped in and out on the fly
without taking down processes that are running.

The UltraSPARC IV+ is five times as fast as the UltraSPARC 3 and
two times as fast as the UltraSPARC IV.

The processors are positioned on a "uniboard," which contains up
to four processors and 32G bytes of memory.

All servers are available now. Pricing starts at $31,000.

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Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can
reach her at <mailto:dconnor@nww.com>.
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