Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra?

Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra? 190

Posted by simoniker on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:01PM from the best-title-evah dept.

argonaut writes "Ace's Hardware has an in-depth article on Niagara -- Sun's upcoming parallel server processor with 8 cores and 4 threads each. The article discusses the chip's radical architecture and what kind of performance can be expected from it in traditionally thread-heavy server applications like web hosting, databases, and other multi-user applications. Given the recent cancellation of the UltraSPARC V, it seems this is going to be Sun's new direction for its in-house CPU design efforts. Furthermore, both Intel and IBM are working on other highly parallel processors and AMD is expected to eventually introduce a dual-core Opteron. So, will more threads prop up Sun's performance?"

Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra?

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Nice title! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:01PM (#8908265)

Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra?

Best. Title. Ever.

Niagara falls! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:02PM (#8908276)

To the might of IBM's Power CPU!

best-title-evah-my-arse dept. (Score:2, Funny)

by shadowcabbit ( 466253 ) writes: <cx.thefurryone@net> on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:03PM (#8908285) Journal

...what the hell? Sun is producing servers optimized to send spam now? What does it mean?!

What? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:03PM (#8908289)

It hardens your old server? My server is still pretty new, so I guess it doesn't need it.

Geek porn! (Score:5, Funny)

by NanoGator ( 522640 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:03PM (#8908291) Homepage Journal

" Sun's upcoming parallel server processor with 8 cores and 4 threads each."

Without warning, underwear tents pop up all over the country.

ah, the smell of a new computer . .. (Score:5, Funny)

by klang ( 27062 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:05PM (#8908316)

works better than Viagra?

Weird analogy... (Score:5, Funny)

by kclittle ( 625128 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:08PM (#8908358)

Viagra is 'posed to make your one thing big and strong. Niagra is all about slicing and dicing one big thing into multiple threads. The mental image makes my knees ache...

doh (Score:4, Funny)

by theMerovingian ( 722983 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:11PM (#8908395) Journal

AMD is expected to eventually introduce a dual-core Opteron

If Opteron rhymed with Levitra, I could make a pretty funny joke here...

No (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:11PM (#8908396)

Its sounds more like that stuff that lasts all weekend!

So do I have to see a doctor ? (Score:4, Funny)

by unixwin ( 569813 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:17PM (#8908468) Homepage

If the processor runs for more than 4 hours continuously or if I have a heart condition?

WARNING! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:18PM (#8908475)

If your server stays up for longer than 4 hours at a time, seek emergency medical attention!

This just in from Las Vegas (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:19PM (#8908491)

The over/under for the number of bad Viagra jokes that will be posted to this discussion is 184.5.

My only concern: (Score:4, Funny)

by Powercntrl ( 458442 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:25PM (#8908541) Homepage

Viagra only works where the sun doesn't shine!

My god what have we done.... (Score:2, Funny)

by NIN1385 ( 760712 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:25PM (#8908544)

The world is going to end if we ever give a computer viagra...I mean, it almost ended when we gave it to my grandpa...

Re:Nice title! (Score:3, Funny)

by sidb ( 530400 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:26PM (#8908548) Homepage

I must get too much spam. For a second, I thought I saw Nigeria and Viagra in the same headline. D'oh.

Sun is dead (Score:3, Funny)

by bwy ( 726112 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:30PM (#8908590)

When can we expect the "Sun is dead" threads to reach the frequency of the "Apple is dead" threads? I await that day with great anticipation.

Re:Nice title! (Score:5, Funny)

by saforrest ( 184929 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:34PM (#8908633) Journal

Best. Title. Ever.

I don't know. I still liked Lance Bass To Continue To Plague Earth's Surface [slashdot.org].

Now all we need... (Score:2, Funny)

by BlueBoxSW.com ( 745855 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:43PM (#8908718) Homepage

Now all we need is a simple to learn language built to be compiled for threaded servers, and we're all set!

Get cheap $U|\N n-i-a-g-a-r-a serrvrs (Score:5, Funny)

by sulli ( 195030 ) * writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:47PM (#8908751) Journal

N e w _ g en er i c _ s u n _ servers
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And why nerd dates are doomed to fail (Score:5, Funny)

by eclectro ( 227083 ) writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:59PM (#8908896)

ah, the smell of a new computer . ..works better than Viagra?

"Honey, I need to open this box from Alienware first."

......nine hours later at the crack of dawn.

"Honey, I'm done playing counterstrike. We can go to bed now."

"Yeah right. I need to get to work."

Re:Multi-threading and selectable IO channels (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @05:01PM (#8908916)

It almost has meter! Almost!

May I suggest this slight modification:

This Sun Niagra processor looks promising,
especially for software that threads.
I'm especially intrigued on how this
will effect Java IO overhead.

Re:Viagra? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 19, 2004 @05:21PM (#8909079)

Because it rhymes with Niagara, duh. At least they didn't name it "Venus Extension".

Can't... resist... must... post... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 20, 2004 @02:00AM (#8913803)

So if one of these servers should happen to go down, would one say that "Niagara falls?"

Oh, the redundancy.

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Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra?

Nice title! (Score:3, Funny)

Niagara falls! (Score:5, Funny)

best-title-evah-my-arse dept. (Score:2, Funny)

What? (Score:5, Funny)

Geek porn! (Score:5, Funny)

ah, the smell of a new computer . .. (Score:5, Funny)

Weird analogy... (Score:5, Funny)

doh (Score:4, Funny)

No (Score:1, Funny)

So do I have to see a doctor ? (Score:4, Funny)

WARNING! (Score:5, Funny)

This just in from Las Vegas (Score:0, Funny)

My only concern: (Score:4, Funny)

My god what have we done.... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Nice title! (Score:3, Funny)

Sun is dead (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Nice title! (Score:5, Funny)

Now all we need... (Score:2, Funny)

Get cheap $U|\N n-i-a-g-a-r-a serrvrs (Score:5, Funny)

And why nerd dates are doomed to fail (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Multi-threading and selectable IO channels (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Viagra? (Score:2, Funny)

Can't... resist... must... post... (Score:1, Funny)

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