Hey guys, check out these new line of processors. They are all set to redefine the future of computing.
Mr. Pete Jha, an adjunct professor , under whom I am a Teaching Assistant, gave me this information. He works for Sun, and has been working on this project for the past three years. He is a cool customer, ready with an answer for any technology related question. I consider myself lucky to be associated with him.
The Gigahertz race is dead, not just over. You may have noticed, Intel has stopped bragging about its processors' clock-speeds for a long time now. No, I'm neither talking about my favourite AMD processors. True, AMD revolutionized desktop computing with their dual-core and 64-bit processors. That probably sparked off the multi-core processor race. The processors I'm talking about are Sun's upcoming Niagara processor family - the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000.
They come in 8-core and 16-core flavours. The average Joe will also be able to afford lower-end versions with 4 and 6 cores. This is not something of the far future. They are gonna be available by the end of this year. Whats more, if Intel talked about Hyperthreading with two threads on the chip, these processors have four threads on a core. Thats 16 virtual processors on a 4-core chip and 32 virtual processors on an 8-core chip.
If you thought 56-bit key DES and 128-bit key encryptions were hard to break through, THINK AGAIN. You don't need to run a distributed application to break the encryption now. A single box with Niagara inside will suffice.
Apart from this, there can be multiple processor slots on a main-board, with a multi-core processor in each. That gives a new dimension to processing speed. Now, would you still justify the need for a distributed system?
However, if you are interested, you can read more at
Sun's Niagara: speeds and feeds emerge -
Sun has at least 1GHz of Niagara Viagra -
