The pdf of a slide presentation by Rick Hetherington and Greg Grohoski of Oracle introduces the Next Generation SPARC Processor: An In-Depth Technical Review. The presentation covers the following topics:

• Attributes of Commercial Workloads
• Introduction of the T4
• Overview of the T4 Processor
• Focus on Core S3
• SPARC T4 Systems
• Performance

In their summary of the SPARC T4 processor, the authors stress the following:

• Balanced single- and multi-thread performance (applicable to all enterprise workloads and holding numerous world records)

• Outstanding cryptographic performance with the most complete cipher acceleration in the industry and the ability to enable transparent encryption across the SW stack

• Excellent RAS

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Podcast Highlights Oracle's SPARC T4 Processor

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