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Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way UltraSPARC Chip
Megaslow writes "The latest entry in Jonathan Schwartz's blog has pictures of Sun's Project Niagra chip, with 8 cores * 4 threads per core for a 32-way computer on single chip. He also shows what looks to be a test rig reportedly already up and running Solaris 10."
By blog, you mean a press release from an officer instead of the Marketing/PR dept right?
I don't care if this guy is a miracle child from the gay marriage of President Bush and the Pope, this blog reads like it was written by a pompus asshole. Apparently everyone but Sun sucks.
Does Johnathan not get it, or is he playing the FUD game?
He is playing the FUD game, and it's nothing new. For example, he has referred to Gnome as "open source crap" that supposedly requires the genius and brillians of Sun's GUI designers to put right (CRN article). He has also tried to portray Linux as a kind of low-quality entry-level UNIX that isn't enterprise ready, with Solaris being the high-performance choice.
The most annoying and dangerous thing about Schwartz is that he keeps trying to redefine the meaning of "open" and "open source" in order to get Sun's highly proprietary platforms and products (e.g., Java) to be more widely accepted.
Why is Schwartz doing this? Because he must know that Sun is basically finished as a company: their hardware is uninteresting and Solaris is uninteresting. The only piece of software they own that anybody cares about is Java, but as soon as Sun tried to use their legal control of Java to extract any significant amount of revenue from it (and, make no mistake: Sun has tighter legal ownership of Java than Microsoft has of any of their platforms), they would have a rebellion on their hands.