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Oracle Releases SPARC T5 Servers; Too Late?

Posted by Unknown on from the sparc-of-life dept.

First time accepted submitter bobthesungeek76036 writes "On March 26th, Larry Ellison and always with fashionable haircut John Fowler announced the new line of SPARC servers from Oracle. Touted as the fastest microprocessor in the world, they put up some impressive SPEC numbers against much more expensive (and older) IBM hardware. Is the industry still interested in SPARC or is it too late for Larry to regain the server market that Sun Microsystems had many moons ago?" El Reg has a pretty good overview of the new hardware; the T5 certainly looks interesting for highly threaded work loads (there's some massive SMT going on with 16 threads per core), but with Intel dominating for single-threaded performance and ARM-based servers becoming available squeezing them for massive multi-threading, is there really any hope in Oracle's efforts to stay in the hardware game?

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  1. Re:frosty piss; too late? by mcneely.mike · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Okay, okay.
    Best.Story.Ever. (Now go and take the DAMN shower...... sheeesh!)
    :)

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  2. BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS?? by SpaceManFlip · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    THat's all I wants to know, can it run the damn best game of all last decade? What? Yeah I wanna put the sniper scope and laser sight and silencer all together on the standard SCAR and play through the entire game like that even though it's the first gun you get. Can't do that in Crysis 2 or even 3 I bet.

    Frosty piss or not, put them tiggaflops to bouncin' on some PDRK headshots and nano-powered super leaps.