The processor clock speeds are doubling every two years but the performance increase is only 20%. Not satisfied with this, Sun has come up with this revolutionary technology.

Sun claims that its new family of UltraSPARC processors based on "Throughput Computing" will deliver increased real-world and application performance. These processors maximize throughput - the aggregate amount of work done. A single processor can execute tens of software threads simultaneously.

The resulting computer power will be 15-30 times more than the current processors. Sun's in-house team of 1400 engineers - the second largest microprocessor design engineering team in the world - plans to bring in a computing revolution by dramatically cutting costs and complexity of network computing.

These processors incorporate the technology of chip multithreading (CMT) which integrates the power of symmetric multi processing (SMP) on to a single chip. Sun claims that increased chip utilization can dramatically boost application performance by factors of 10. Fewer systems will decrease the amount of space by 20 times, and power requirements by 13 times. The maintenance requirements will also decrease considerably.

Sun plans that within two years, price and performance will be dramatically improved by delivering blade processors that increase performance 15-fold; that beyond 2005 , Sun intends to ship system processors that will increase system performance 30-folds. The future looks bright!

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