ServerWatch has an article that details how the UltraSPARC T1 based SF T2000 powers the Real Time Matrix's ability to process millions of items a day and generate matches against millions of preferences.

Real Time Matrix provides technology to find what is relevant to a user from the flow of live Web content and sends it to a connected device of your choice. The iJ.am website is an example of how the technology works.

Quotes from the article :

We need a stable, robust infrastructure to process millions of items a day, match against millions of preferences and run 24/7. For high-speed, high-performance, 100 percent raw computing, we are finding it is cheaper and better on Sun and Solaris

When Real Time Matrix replaced a dual socket dual core system running Fedora Core with the SF T2000 running Solaris, they found that their matching throughput went up from hundreds per second to 10000 per second.

Although (the UltraSPARC T1) has up to 32 threads, Whitehead said it currently uses only up to 20 threads to achieve the 10,000 match per second rate

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