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Today is the day

Today is the day we are announcing Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000. Sun's first "chip level multithreading" (CMT) processor is released on Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers. The official name is UltraSPARC T1, but our internal code-name is Niagara.

I have been planning to blog for some time but never sat down. However, I am very happy to sit down today and write about UltraSPARC T1 (CMT) servers, especially on Performance and Scalability. Our team makes Java SE and Java EE scream on these CMT servers. I will begin by highlighting what these CMT servers mean to Java world and would like to follow up with more blogs later. See Richard McDougall's blog about CMT information.

In one sentence, this is all about multithreading. If you do mutlithreaded programming and you use Java(TM) for Web Programming, then these servers are for you. So what do we have in store for you. We have best performance. Not only best performance, but world record performance and price/performance on a comparable systems. See David Dagastine's post on Java Performance. If you care about Java Performance Tuning on these systems, see Brain Doherty's weblog.

If you are interested in Java EE and Application Server Performance on these servers, then visit Scott Oak's blog for analysis. Worried about total cost of ownership(TCO) on Application Tier? Then visit our announcement to see Sun Java(TM) System Application Server 8.2 Platform Edition (AS 8.2 PE) as the price/performance leader.

We have scalability, rather excellent scalability, on these servers. If you are into Web Services, then visit Bharath Mundlapudi's blog to see scalability results. Interested in XML processing and parser performance, then look at Kim LiChong's blog. If you have specific questions on Java Performance, visit us at Java Performance Community Website.

Stay tuned....

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Posted at 05:50PM Dec 06, 2005 by MADHU KONDA in Java  |  Comments[0]