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2005/12/07


w00t! :)
on 6 december 2005 Sun Microsystems officially announced their UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads(TM) technology to the world at its Quarterly Network Computing '05.
Sun's revolutionary new 9.6Ghz-based systems are led by the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with more in the pipe-line coming.

you can read up on the story right HERE



and if that is not kool enough for the retarded, clueless people in this world, Sun also launched the OpenSPARC Project, open sourcing its new breakthrough UltraSPARC T1 processor design point.

quote from Sun "Sun also announced plans to publish the specifications for the UltraSPARC-based chip, including the source of the design expressed in Verilog, a verification suite and simulation models, instruction set architecture specification (UltraSPARC Architecture 2005) and a Solaris OS port".

Sun has contributed more code to the open source community than any other organization on earth.

// posted by Marco @ 09:27

2005/12/05

Sun's DTrace vs red hat systemtap



Today at work i heard a colleague of mine talk about DTrace being available for linux so i wanted to find out where that piece of info came from.
google found info about a project from red hat called systemtap.
i was already smirking and laughing about it when i heard the dude mention the words "DTrace for linux" :)

wanna know what the google search got me?

here's a quote from a story from a red hat employee:

"There's still work to do, but Red Hat is headed in the right direction, analyst Iams said. "If you do a head-to-head comparison with DTrace, you'll see SystemTap is not anywhere near as powerful," he said".

geez, i really wasn't expecting that kind of conclusion ;)
do these guys really think that they can build such a fantastically kool tool as Sun's DTrace after Sun having released it and having developed it for prolly a couple of years already?

read up about the story here

// posted by Marco @ 17:05

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