Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra?

Posted by simoniker on Monday April 19, 2004 @08:01AM from the best-title-evah dept.

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?"

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Re:Nice title! by AtlanticGiraffe · 2004-04-19 08:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I suggest we ban humor in article titles. It always looks goofy. Who's with me?
Re:best-title-evah-my-arse dept. by AtlanticGiraffe · 2004-04-19 08:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is anything more overused then using SQL in an attempt to be funny? Just a thought.