[wellylug] Sun confirms plans to open source Solaris / hardware junkies!

[Rob Giltrap]

Wood Brent wrote:

>The faster x86 cpus are rolling the traditional 64bit RISC systems. Faster &
>cheaper boxes.
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Absolutely, Opteron is just awesome and actually got the onchip memory 
controller technology from Sun (Both companies design teams literally 
work within a stones throw of one another and go to the same pubs). I 
have been waiting for the 939 pins to come out so I may be forced to go 
buy a new PC shortly (if my wife lets me!).

Having said that, the 'traditional' 64 bit systems (or at least SPARC) 
are about to have a major change to CMT design creating chips that have 
massive parallel processing capability orders of magnitude more powerful 
than current processor design. I can't tell you the numbers other than 
to say 'WOW', SPARC definately has a big future in the data centre.