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Was doing some work on a server today and had a look at the hardware spec on it.....

System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4v Sun Fire(TM) T1000
System clock frequency: 200 MHz
Memory size: 8184 Megabytes

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CPU CPU
Location CPU Freq Implementation Mask
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MB/CMP0/P0 0 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P1 1 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P2 2 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P3 3 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P4 4 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P5 5 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P6 6 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P7 7 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P8 8 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P9 9 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P10 10 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P11 11 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P12 12 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P13 13 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P14 14 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P15 15 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P16 16 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P17 17 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P18 18 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P19 19 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P20 20 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P21 21 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P22 22 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P23 23 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P24 24 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P25 25 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P26 26 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P27 27 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P28 28 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P29 29 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P30 30 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P31 31 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1

Its a sun T1000 with the new T1 chip in it. 8 cores and 4 threads per core making 32 logical processors on a single chip....thats insane....i didnt even know that type of thing existed.

You know you really are a geek when you get excited about a CPU. Maybe I could talk them into letting me fold on it?
 
Yeah, thats a sun Niagara processor. Really nice for webservers and scripting engines where lots of parallellism can occur. Trouble is its only got 1 floating point unit which is shared across all 8 cores, so for scientific work its not as fast as it might appear.

But its still a very serious processor for a webserver, and it can do a lot of SQL work even with the single FPU.

Niagara II should be released sometime this year, is an 8 core design, like the current Niagara, but its had its ALU's doubled (2 per core instead of 1), and its got 1 FPU per core, instead of 1 FPU total. Its also able to handle 8 threads per core, instead of 4, so it will appear as 64 virtual processors!

Due to the additional FPU's the Niagara 2 will not just be relegated to the webserver type systems, it will be a far better 'general purpose' cpu.
 
Solaris said:
You know you really are a geek when you get excited about a CPU. Maybe I could talk them into letting me fold on it?
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No such luck for a variety of reasons. First off there is no FAH client for this CPU architecture or OS. Second even if there was a Folding client or you cooked up your own from one of the open-source projects like SETI, it would have extremely poor performance becasue there is but one floating point unit shared between all the cores and threads. The CPU is not designed for scientific calculations. It's designed to serve up web pages and databases with scores of concurrent users.

EDIT: ...As Corasik said long ago. :p
 
Good point, didnt know the ins and outs of the processor, it just looked like a beast. Niagra II sounds sweet, folding would be nice on thatm, if they released a version of FAH that ran on solaris.

The chip only runs at 1ghz as well....wonder how it overclocks.
 
Solaris said:
Good point, didnt know the ins and outs of the processor, it just looked like a beast. Niagra II sounds sweet, folding would be nice on thatm, if they released a version of FAH that ran on solaris.
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Not gonna happen. You'd be better off crunching an open source project like SETI where you could easily create a BOINC client and a computational core for any CPU/OS combination.
Solaris said:
The chip only runs at 1ghz as well....wonder how it overclocks.
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Not at all. :p
 
I'm currently building a system based on:

5 x 6-core T1000 - Web servers and e-mail servers
19 x 8-core T1000 - weblogic application servers
4 x 8-core T2000 - Oracle database servers
7 x dual dual-cpu X4200 (2.6GHz Opterons) - optimization software
3 x V245 - reporting


Plus development environments equating to about 50% on top of that.
 
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Jumblemo said:
Do you think this system could even beat a PS3 at folding? Although I take it it cost more than £500?
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Sun T1000/T2000 servers are actually very specifically good at multi-threaded messaging type apps like web serving/e-mail and java application servers (WebLogic/WebSphere etc.); they have very poor floating point having only a single fpu per socket so they would suck at foldingwere there a Solaris client which there isn't!

And yes, that lot cost a bit more than £500.

A fully loaded T1000 with 8GB ram and a 1GHz 8-core chip costs aroung £8K including fully-supported Solaris.
 
hmmm...£8k doesnt sound so bad even if its a bit bad at adding up - my boss is rubbish at numbers and he earns more than £33k a year!

With all those web servers and email things it sounds like it's pretty good at running the inter web.And the browser on the PS3 is pretty crappy an all so it might have the edge even so. But evry one's saying there's no games for multi-core so I guess its not too hot on Fry Cry or BF42 and stuff.

Does it come in piano black or take a 6 way wireless gamepad? I'm assuming blu-rays a given if you slot in on of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-034-PO
 
T1000s are amazing at doing lots of simultaneous little things so web serving and e-commerce apps are perfect for them.

They're not terribly attractive - rather dull grey 1u servers with very noisy fans - but they also use very little power running under 200W generally.
 
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