re: SPARC64 from Fujitsu

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> >> SPARC64 X products from Fujitsu ?
> >> http://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2013/01/18.html
> >... the least sister of Kei Super computer technology.
> > 
> > mrg@ was working on SPARC64-V ( or was it -VI? Whatever is
> > used in PrimePower 250 ) support.
> 
> Here goes the quick summary of spec.  Compared to T4, it seems
> rather trandinal many-core processor;
> 
> 64K+64K L1 caches
> 22MB L2 cache
> 16 core in 1 processor
> 2 HW threads per core
> 
> The inter-connect technology for multiple chasis configuration is a
> Fujitsu proprietary.

yeah, SPARC64-V support is in progress.  i hope to get more action
on it in the coming months.  right now it resets when /sbin/init
tries to fork to run /etc/rc, and i don't know why.


.mrg.