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P6 Throughput Computing Overview © 2003 Sun Microsystems CMT processor simply starts processing another thread, as shown in Figure 1.4. “Today’s processors can be idle up to 75 percent of the time, leaving considerable room for improvement in processor design,” said Vernon Turner, Group Vice President, Global Enterprise Server Solutions at International Data Corporation (IDC). “By focusing on increased application workload throughput instead of clock frequency, Sun’s CMT processors should deliver significant increases in application performance.” Sun’s CMT processors will also have multiple cores on a single piece of silicon, with each core being able to process multiple threads, as shown in Figure 1.5. As a result, a single CMT processor will be able to process tens of threads simultaneously, exponentially increasing the amount of data processed each second. By 2005, CMT blade processors from Sun are expected to increase today’s blade throughput by 15 times. Moving beyond 2005, Sun will ship CMT system processors designed to increase the throughput of current system processors by a factor of 30. By delivering “SMP on a chip” and dramatically increasing throughput, Sun is igniting a computing revolution. Figure 1.4: Multithreading Support Allows CMT Chips to Do Useful Work During Wait Cycles. Figure 1.5: Multicore CMT Processors Dramatically Increase Application Throughput.
© 2003 Sun Microsystems Throughput Computing Benefits P7 Chapter 3 Throughput Computing Benefits Customer Benefits Sun’s upcoming CMT UltraSPARC processors are designed to offer customers the ultimate value proposition: the highest levels of service at the lowest cost of acquisition and operation. Revolutionary business benefits include the following: • Increased chip utilization can dramatically boost application performance by factors of 10, not mere percents. This will enable fewer systems to handle the same workloads. • Fewer systems help lower total cost of ownership through dramatically reduced space, power, and maintenance requirements. • Fewer systems to manage can also increase system reliability and availability. At the same time, CMT processors cause no disruption to existing software models due to Sun’s ongoing commitment to the binary compatibility of the UltraSPARC and Solaris Operating Environment platform. Unlike other technology innovations, Sun’s throughput computing strategy enables organizations to run their applications unchanged. By radically increasing workload throughput, Sun’s CMT processors can enable companies to do more with less. Imagine the impact to IT operations two years from now; • A single blade shelf designed to do the work of 32 four-processor servers • The amount of rack space required is reduced by 20 times • Power usage drops from 38 kilowatts to less than 3 kilowatts • Administrators have one system to manage instead of 32 servers • IT budgets can be focused on new services instead of sustaining operations This consolidation will help total cost of ownership to drop dramatically while system reliability and availability increases due to the reduction of systems alone. As a result, companies will be able to free up resources to deliver new network services instead of devoting most of their
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