Dan Gross's Blog

We rolled out 2 T2000s to production last week for sun.com search. They replaced the 2 v490s we had installed for our backend spider crawls. I am amazed by the computing power of the new boxes. The T2000 has a single T1 sparc processor, which has 8 cores and 4 threads per core. That's 32 virtual processors on a single chip. For highly-threaded, integer-based computing it is absolutely perfect. Floating-point is another matter, since all 32 virtual processors share 1 FP processor. That's okay for our purposes though. We saved a ton on price, RUs, and likely energy going forward. It's fun to be eco-friendly. Sun rocks.

T2000:
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/index.jsp

T1 processor:
http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T1/