OpenBSD coming to an UltraSPARC T1 near you
David Gwynne tipped me off on Friday that Mark Kettenis is jamming away at bringing OpenBSD to the UltraSPARC T1 platform.
Back in October the OpenBSD crew got SMP working on old school boxes as exotic as the Sun Fire Enterprise 4000. That was ok but there was a desire to "really push the envelope with heavily
parallel boxes like the Niagaras."
The chip guys here were able to get a T1000 over to Europe and Mark has taken it from there.
As of Friday, Mark has gotten the machine to run multi-user and true SMP support should be a matter of days. (Check out the details here.)
Go Mark, Go!
Pau for now...
At the moment I would not expect commercial companies jump on T1 hardware and buy it in massive quantities, even with OpenBSD running on it.
T2 looks more promising, with 10G nics and onboard crypto, but I'd still have to think hard trying to find a good use for it. (Massively multi-threaded network applications without the real need for performance/responsiveness, anyone?)
It is great that Sun is helping OpenBSD project!
Posted by Max on January 09, 2008 at 02:00 PM CST #
The Niagara based systems have been deployed in large volumes by commercial, government and educational customers. In fact in December, Sun broke through the $1bn barrier in system sales since the first systems were shipped. The proposition of being able to achieve breakthrough levels of performance while minimising power and space overhead has proven a huge benefit to large and small customers alike - from eBay, Bank of America and Betfair, through to start-ups like Real Time Matrix and SearchForce:
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/testimonials/index.jsp
Applications that can take advantage of the facilities of Niagara are plentiful, including web servers, Java environments, business apps, databases, scripted services, etc - and they enjoy high performance with fast responsiveness, as further demonstrated by the raft of world record benchmarks the Niagara platforms have achieved:
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/benchmarks/index.jsp
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