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Tuesday January 29, 2008

Sun and Intel relationship anniversary!
Hard to believe, its now one year from when we started the Sun Intel relationship (actually Jan 22nd was the anniversary)
And what a year it has been!
Dave Stewart has outlined a number of accomplishments for the past year in his blog here.
We've finally made Xeons a mainstream Solaris offering at Sun.
Congratulations to both the Intel team and Sun Solaris team for coming this far and for the momentum that has been built up.
On my part, I'd be remiss not to add Sun Studio changes in the past year to support Core2:

Instruction scheduling and tuning for Core2 that has resulted in some phenomenal SpecFP improvements outlined here
Sun Performance Library that is now optimally tuned for Woodcrest
Regular engineering meetings so we can ensure we can be feature- and tuning- ready with new platforms as they emerge
Functionality: SSSE3 in assembler and intrinsics in an just-around-the-corner SXDE and Sun Studio Express releases
Working together to make possible Intel's Open Source Threading Building Blocks on Solaris. Get the sources here.

In the year ahead, expect much more tuning, functionality (SSE4.1, SSE4.2) and related performance work and even more collaboration.
Go team! We're just getting started!
Posted by tatkar ( Jan 29 2008, 02:04:59 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]

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