Thursday - August 09, 2007

good write-up about Niagra 2 

 There's a good article at El' Reg:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/06/niagaraii_out_sun/

It correctly gives Sun a little grief for it's "Fastest CPU" claim.  The comments are worth reading too, esp. the one about light weight threads.  Although in my experience, a majority of the machines in the N-Tier stack are doing light weight work and only a small handful benifiti from a more heavy weight CPU...