Tag Archives: Coolthreads

Sun’s Niagara2 Processor

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Thorleif Wiik

More and more information about the upcoming Niagara2 Processor is on the web. What’s new about the Ultrasparc T2 Processor? 2nd generation CMT (Chip Multi-Threading) processor 8 Sparc Cores, 4MB shared L2 cache; Supports concurrent execution of 64 threads 2x … Continue reading →

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SPECjAPPServer2004 results for glassfish

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Thorleif Wiik

There are a couple of published results for glassfish V1 aka Sun Java Systems Application Server 9.0 on different types of Server hardware: One Sun T2000, One 1,2Ghz T1, 8 Cores: 521,42 JOPS Three Sun X4100, each two 2,6Ghz AMD … Continue reading →

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Cooltools for Coolthreads are Coolstack

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

There’s a new Software collection, called Coolstack, offered by Sun with Open Source software, compiled with Sun Studio 11, optimized for Solaris/Ultrasparc Platform. Currently, there are Sun packages with Apache HTTP Server 2.0.58, MySQL 5.0.22, PHP 5.1.4, Perl 5.8.8 and … Continue reading →

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Oracle 10g on Sun Fire T2000

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

There’s a new whitepaper about running Oracle 10gR2 Database on a Sun T2000 Niagara Server. Summary: When running the Oracle database 10g, the Sun Fire T2000 CoolThreads server outperformed an equivalent 4-way Dell PowerEdge server equipped with the latest 64 … Continue reading →

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Coolthreads

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

Today, we installed a couple of new Sun Server in one of our datacenters. On the picture, you can see one Sun T2000 and three Sun X4200.

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Sun Server Power Calculators online

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Administrator

For a lot of Servers, Sun offers new Power Calculators online. Really good to calculate the total system Power in Watts and the BTU/Hour for individual Server configurations. The new calculators are available for SPARC and AMD Opteron Servers: Sun … Continue reading →

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