Well remember it's just rumor and speculation at this point. ROCK obviously has features that would be of huge interest to Oracle and to customers looking to consolidate servers and scale up. I would rather assume that the SuperNova servers that the ROCK processor is designed for probably need some reworking as technology changes soo fast that last years ideas are outdated. So who knows for now. But if it were going to be canceled, it's more likely to be due to the 8-core SPARC64 Venus processors that will apparently do 128GFlops per socket out performing ROCK.
As for the next gen Niagara processor, I doubt that would be dropped as CMT is the cash cow for Sun when it comes to volume servers. If anything, greater emphasis is on the delivery of the UltraSPARC-KT (Niagara 3) processor than anything else. Overall, it's disappointing about the SPARC workstations going away. But I doubt the server end will go away as Sun makes most of its server revenue from CMT today. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Karel Gardas <karel.gar...@centrum.cz> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:09:38 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] SPARC Rock is dead, NIagara 3 not taped out. End of SPARC? So first workstations and now servers too. Pity, but it seems such is life in the server domain in a sign of consolidation... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
