Green Computing

Sun Microsystems has brought eco-friendly to the world of computing with some interesting results.

Recently, Sun Microsystems released its newest chip on the block, the UltraSPARC T1. The UltraSPARC makes use of multithreading technology (the ability to run more than one part or "thread" of a program at a time) having the ability to run four threads per core. Their new server, the T2000 using a processor with 8 cores can run up to 32 threads simultaneously. To those who I lost at the term multithreading, that's alot of computing power. Database servers, multimedia content servers, application servers, anything that runs labor intensive services, is going to be much happier running on this technology.

Not only is this server a power house, but it also appears to be a power saver. Running on 70 watts of electricity compared to the 150 watts utilized by IBM and Intel chips, the UltraSPARC seems to be easier on the wallet as well.

It will be interesting to see where this goes in the future. Any comments are welcomed!