BM Seer blogs yet again on his favorite subject, the record setting results racked up by Sun products in benchmarking exercises. This time he writes about the Sun Fire X4600 M2 (8 Opteron 2.5 Ghz QC) running Sun Java SE 6 Update 6-p, which achieved a result of 683542 SPECjbb2005 bops, 85443 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM for the best score for all x86 based servers on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.
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Fujitsu’s Takumi Maruyama delivered a presentation on Tuesday at the Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto, Calif. According to a report in Computerworld, at the end of that presentation there was a brief discussion of a future eight-core version of the quad-core SPARC64 VII. The eight core chip has a code name of “Venus”. Sun and Fujitsu jointly developed the SPARC Enterprise server line that uses the SPARC64 chips and Solaris 10.
A 64-way SPARC Enterprise M9000 equipped with quad-core 2.52GHz SPARC64 VII processors delivered 2.023 TFLOPS on the Linpack HPC benchmark.
Maruyama provided few details, including when the processor will ship other than it will be manufactured using a 45-nanometer process, a step up from the 65-nanometer process used for the quad-core SPARC64 VII.
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Sun's Shailender Chaudhry delivered a presentation at the August 2008 "Hot Chips" conference.
Slides from the talk, "Rock: A third Generation 65nm, 16-Core, 32 Thread + 32 Scout-Threads CMT SPARC Processor" are
available on-line in PDF format.
"The goals for this high-end commercial microprocessor are high
throughput and high single-thread performance, mainframe-class
reliability, hardware transactional memory, and linear scalability.
We show how these goals are met by the logical and physical design
of this 2.3GHz 396mm2 16-core 32-thread plus 32-scout-thread
microprocessor."
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