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At SUN I was working with 256-thread SPARCs regularly and it was fairly simple to program using Java, except for some oddities in Solaris regarding networking s
by bitL 12y ago
At SUN I was working with 256-thread SPARCs regularly and it was fairly simple to program using Java, except for some oddities in Solaris regarding networking stack. So if you need fast web servers, app servers or ETL, these chips can be pretty awesome. SPARC's threads were slower than ARM processors in mainstream phones nowadays, yet they were pretty good in handling web load.
I would buy these chips in an instant, similarly to Parallela's 64-core ARM.
The competition would be Xeon Phi - I assume that is much more expensive and the memory is too limited (8GB).
- 4ad 12y ago> Parallela's 64-core ARM Parallela is not a 64-core ARM, it's a 2-core ARM with a bunch of co-processors which have to be programmed specially. The co-processors have little local memory and the memory model is very weak, there are no memory barriers precluding the use of general-purpose code.