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White Papers

Utilizing Predictors for Efficient Thermal Management in Multiprocessor SoCs

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Conventional thermal management techniques are reactive in nature; that is, they take action after temperature reaches a predetermined threshold value. Such approaches do not always minimize and...

Provided by: UC Regents

White Papers

Increase Application Scalability and Improve System Utilization with Oracle VM Server for SPARC

May 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

This Oracle white paper describes the application of Oracle VM Server for SPARC to implement high-capacity enterprise systems. Oracle Solaris CoolThreads technology combined with Oracle VM Server...

Provided by: Oracle

White Papers

Neural Network based On-Chip Thermal Simulator

February 1, 2010 12:00am PST

With increasing power densities, runtime thermal management is becoming a necessity in today's systems, especially so for highly integrated Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). In this paper,...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Webcasts

Scaling Hadoop for MapReduce Applications Webinar

January 1, 2010 12:00am PST

Hadoop is typically scaled on a large pool of commodity system nodes. However, by using multicore, multithreaded processors, one can achieve the same scale with fewer machines. The presenter of...

Provided by: Sun Microsystems

White Papers

Phoenix Rebirth: Scalable MapReduce on a Large-Scale Shared-Memory System

September 12, 2009 12:00am PDT

Dynamic runtimes can simplify parallel programming by automatically managing concurrency and locality without further burdening the programmer. Nevertheless, implementing such runtime systems for...

Provided by: Stanford University

White Papers

Cache-Collision Timing Attacks Against AE

January 1, 2009 12:00am PST

This paper describes several novel timing attacks against the common table-driven software implementation of the AES cipher. It defines a general attack strategy using a simplified model of the...

Provided by: Stanford University

White Papers

OpenSPARC: An Open Platform for Hardware Reliability Experimentation

March 11, 2008 12:00am PDT

OpenSPARC is an open source community based around hardware design and experimentation aids for the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Chip Multi-Threaded (CMT) microprocessors. The UltraSPARC T2 processor is...

Provided by: Stanford University

Case Studies

Incisive Xtreme Server Helps Speed the Completion of Breakthrough Processor Technology

January 1, 2008 12:00am PST

In recent years, energy efficiency in the data center has escalated to the top of many companies' IT priority lists. By lowering power consumption, large IT organizations can significantly reduce...

Provided by: Sun Microsystems

Blog Post

Sun open-sources UltraSPARC T2 processor design

December 12, 2007 7:51am PST

Continuing with its SPARC open-source program, Sun Microsystems has made available the RTL (Register Transfer Level) processor designs for the UltraSPARC T2 processor.

White Papers

Adaptive Aggregation on Chip Multiprocessors

September 28, 2007 12:00am PDT

The recent introduction of commodity chip multiprocessors requires that the design of core database operations be care-fully examined to take full advantage of on-chip parallelism. In this paper...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Articles

Does the energy-efficient Sun Fire T1000 rack mount server have a place in your organization?

August 22, 2006 7:00am PDT

Sun's T1000 rack mount server boasts a power-saving UltraSPARC T1 CPU with CoolThreads technology for multicore processing. Justin James offers an in-depth look at the unit's features,...

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Image Gallery

Photos: Sun fires up Niagara servers

July 18, 2006 3:43pm PDT

First look at energy-thrifty systems based on Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor.

White Papers

T.38 and the Future of Fax

June 29, 2001 12:00am PDT

One tool crucial to building the new world of real-time fax over IP is the emerging International Telecommunications Union (ITU) T.38 standard for real-time fax over IP, which makes it possible...