Fujitsu Announces 16-core SPARC64 IXfx (and the Supercomputer It Powers) 68
First time accepted submitter A12m0v writes with a link to Fujitsu's announcement of its next generation of supercomputer, from which he pastes: "PRIMEHPC FX10 runs on the newly-developed SPARC64 IXfx processors, which offer a very significant boost in performance over the SPARC64 VIIIfx processor on which they are based and which power the K computer. Each processor has 16 cores and achieves world-class standalone performance levels of 236.5 gigaflops and performance per watt of over 2 gigaflops." Not that K is any slouch.
Oracle? (Score:2, Interesting)
Sun was using Fujitsu SPARC64 processors on some of their servers before the buyout. Are there any news on whether Oracle is going to develop new servers with SPARC64 IXfx processors?
Re:Oracle? (Score:2, Interesting)
Rumor from engineer friends is no. They will resell some Fujitsu servers co-branded with Oracle and that's it. :/
The longer term roadmap is even more grim for SPARC. I still have a SunBlade on my desk that works like brand new, but sadly is about as useful as the SGI under the desk
Re:Oracle? (Score:5, Interesting)