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Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra?
argonaut writes "Ace's Hardware has an in-depth article on Niagara -- Sun's upcoming parallel server processor with 8 cores and 4 threads each. The article discusses the chip's radical architecture and what kind of performance can be expected from it in traditionally thread-heavy server applications like web hosting, databases, and other multi-user applications. Given the recent cancellation of the UltraSPARC V, it seems this is going to be Sun's new direction for its in-house CPU design efforts. Furthermore, both Intel and IBM are working on other highly parallel processors and AMD is expected to eventually introduce a dual-core Opteron. So, will more threads prop up Sun's performance?"
Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra?
Best. Title. Ever.
To the might of IBM's Power CPU!
...what the hell? Sun is producing servers optimized to send spam now? What does it mean?!
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
It hardens your old server? My server is still pretty new, so I guess it doesn't need it.
" Sun's upcoming parallel server processor with 8 cores and 4 threads each."
Without warning, underwear tents pop up all over the country.
"Derp de derp."
works better than Viagra?
Viagra is 'posed to make your one thing big and strong. Niagra is all about slicing and dicing one big thing into multiple threads. The mental image makes my knees ache...
Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
AMD is expected to eventually introduce a dual-core Opteron
If Opteron rhymed with Levitra, I could make a pretty funny joke here...
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
Its sounds more like that stuff that lasts all weekend!
If the processor runs for more than 4 hours continuously or if I have a heart condition?
-- everyones not everybody and neither is everybody like everyone.
If your server stays up for longer than 4 hours at a time, seek emergency medical attention!
The over/under for the number of bad Viagra jokes that will be posted to this discussion is 184.5.
Viagra only works where the sun doesn't shine!
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
The world is going to end if we ever give a computer viagra...I mean, it almost ended when we gave it to my grandpa...
If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up. - Comedian Mitch Hedberg R.I.P. 03/30/68-2/24/05
When can we expect the "Sun is dead" threads to reach the frequency of the "Apple is dead" threads? I await that day with great anticipation.
Now all we need is a simple to learn language built to be compiled for threaded servers, and we're all set!
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ah, the smell of a new computer . ..works better than Viagra?
......nine hours later at the crack of dawn.
"Honey, I need to open this box from Alienware first."
"Honey, I'm done playing counterstrike. We can go to bed now."
"Yeah right. I need to get to work."
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
It almost has meter! Almost!
May I suggest this slight modification:
This Sun Niagra processor looks promising,
especially for software that threads.
I'm especially intrigued on how this
will effect Java IO overhead.
Because it rhymes with Niagara, duh. At least they didn't name it "Venus Extension".
So if one of these servers should happen to go down, would one say that "Niagara falls?"
Oh, the redundancy.