Tuning for UltraSPARC T1

It is a very rare person who has a 32 CPU development server, which tends to lead to the situation where most developers write code that is rarely capable to scaling to 32 processors. This has not usually been a problem since traditionally 32 CPU servers cost in the vicinity of small houses.

With the introduction of the UltraSPARC T1 with it's 8 core and 32 threads, a server can cost less than US$10000 and run 32 simultaneous applications. Developing applications for this is not the same as that of a typical 2 or 4 CPU Intel server, getting the most out of so much horsepower requires a radical thinking of application architecture.

For those of you who are interested in knowing how to do tuning for UltraSPARC T1 processors, and it's successors, read the "UltraSPARC T1 Tuning Guide" available right here.

Powered by ScribeFire.

Posted at 08:08PM Apr 27, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]