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Sun Cancels UltraSPARC IIIi+
Doctor Memory writes "El Reg is reporting that Sun has finally come clean and admitted that they have killed the UltraSPARC IIIi+ chip. According to John Fowler, Sun's server chief, 'We canceled it last fiscal year to focus on the ramp (up) of UltraSPARC IV+, Niagara and Niagara 2.' Sun has had great success with its new Niagara line, and with it's line of AMD-based systems."
I think that Sun UltraSPARC IV can replace UltraSPARC III smoothly (they share the same socket, Sun can provide help doing this, c...) According to: http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-IV/index. xml
"Executing on Sun's Throughput Computing strategy, the dual-thread UltraSPARC IV processor marks the first milestone in Sun's Chip Multithreading (CMT) roadmap (...) It protects customers' investments through 100 percent application binary compatibility, and can provide an upgrade path for current UltraSPARC III processor-based systems "
It's like replacing an Athlon Socket AM2 Single Core with a Dual Core (I think...)
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"And thought, damn, nobody's going to buy that, people aren't stupid. Everyone knows that IIIi+ is almost 4, it has to be 3.8 at least so we just decided to rename it 4. Sorry... IV... IV+... Would another plus be overkill do you think?" said a Sun spokesman.
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Except the smallest USIV box they make is the 490, 4RU and non-hs power supplies. Get me a 240 replacement with a USIV and I'll be all over it. Or better yet figure out how to add HS dual power and the USIV to the 210.
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Is anyone surprised? USIV and T1 are by far Suns big cash cows. While I'm typing this at an USIIIi powered workstation, and would love a simple upgrade, I cant say that this upsets me in the least. I'd far rather Sun's R&D go into thier higher-end stuff than entry-level stuff, since it will push the current "high end" crap down to the level that us mere mortals will be able to get it! :-D
I guess we know what the "i" stands for in UltraSpark IIIi. It's for imaginary. Like in math.
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You know, that's the second time I've seen that website, and I'm still not impressed.
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There was a patent lawsuit. I don't know where you get "class action" part from. Sun also settled and licensed the technology immediately after the judge decided they were infringing. So you proved... how responsible Sun is?
Sun has done some questionable things, but those aren't it.
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Run Windows on an AMD based SUN box and I bet Hell has frozen over! At least that is what I would have thought 10 years ago!
I'm afraid you're right (and I'm wrong).
According to
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v240/specs.xml
or
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v210/specs.xml
There are no processor upgrades avalaible to the Sun V240 or Sun V210 Server. I suppose that the upgrade is only avalaible to the Big Iron Systems.
uh, the V490 does have hotswap power supplies. As a matter of fact, all servers that sun makes that have dual power supplies are hotswappable.
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In August of 2004, I was in Sillicon Valley, and I visited the Sun headquarters.
It was quite possibly the most disorganized, un-coordinated place on earth. If Disney World was run by a single quadrapalegic, I think it would still be more effecient.
We took a tour, and the guide honestly said that the only really interesting thing they had going on, was that they could bring their dogs to work....uh thanks man. really technologically advanced
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Sun has done some questionable things, but those aren't it.
Their handling of sun4m and hardware thereof in not-so OpenSolaris 10 seems to be a bit (more?) questionable given that there was a workable, buildable version of it- and I doubt svn goes back 3-4+ years to s10_22. It'd at least be better to have them put it back in, along with all the hardware eol'ed along the way(and fully documented). Then Sun can just close the book on that platform for good once there is something of a "reference build" that works as well as the rest (versus something that was crippled out of spite - dtrace is forgiven here, and I'd think you could dig up s10_22, and enough of else was dropped to get about any sun4m class system running, bmc).
Anything much earlier than sun4c/d/m seems to not have much of an installbase, or mass amounts of documentation missing on critical points of hardware(console, network, storage). Ironic that for now that Sun *doesnt* want you to have your hardware and software match, even when there is a perfect opportunity to do it.
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Not quite, the V210 and X2100, the X2200 and the T1000 do not have dual hot swapable PSU's.
They are all 1U boxes and most 1U boxes don't have dual hot pluggable PSU's.
The UltraSPARC T1 has an 8-core CPU out on the market today, with 4-thread hyperthreading. Ie, 32-threads at one time on a single CPU. It does this at 72 Watts. Intel and AMD are only talking about quad-core CPUs for next year.
Well the V210 doesn't have dual power supplies, so you are in direct agreement with the post you replied to, which said: "As a matter of fact, all servers that sun makes that have dual power supplies are hotswappable."