{"id":1062,"date":"2007-08-22T10:58:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/bf7e2efa655446a0648b5da5235de229"},"modified":"2007-08-22T10:58:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:58:55","slug":"suns-8-core-t2-cpu-trounced-with-a-64-core-cpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Sun&#8217;s 8-core T2 CPU trounced with a 64-core CPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can't wait to try out new servers from Sun that use the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/processors\/UltraSPARC-T2\/specs.xml\">T2 CPU<\/a><\/b>. Eight cores and eight threads a core make for 64 threads, all for under 95W of power. <\/p>\n<p>Now folks at MIT have produced the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/paedia\/cpu\/MIT-startup-raises-multicore-bar-with-new-64-core-CPU.ars\">TILE64<\/a><\/b>, a CPU with 64 true cores on a single chip, for under 20W.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun chip is more powerful, but for a massively parallel application the TILE64 could possibly be a better bet. Of course, the Sun solution also has the benefit of the Solaris OS to back it up and therefore making the development process easier. Developing for multiple-core environments is always difficult. The TILE64 solution uses Linux and Eclipse and a custom Multicore Development Environment (MDE).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=DyO2Do\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=DyO2Do\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/147004690\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t wait to try out new servers from Sun that use the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/processors\/UltraSPARC-T2\/specs.xml\">T2 CPU<\/a><\/b>. Eight cores and eight threads a core make for 64 threads, all for under 95W of power. <\/p>\n<p>Now folks at MIT have produced the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/paedia\/cpu\/MIT-startup-raises-multicore-bar-with-new-64-core-CPU.ars\">TILE64<\/a><\/b>, a CPU with 64 true cores on a single chip, for under 20W.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun chip is more powerful, but for a massively parallel application the TILE64 could possibly be a better bet. Of course, the Sun solution also has the benefit of the Solaris OS to back it up and therefore making the development process easier. Developing for multiple-core environments is always difficult. The TILE64 solution uses Linux and Eclipse and a custom Multicore Development Environment (MDE).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=DyO2Do\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=DyO2Do\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/147004690\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}