Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Sun's Rock chip for 256TB of RAM address space

Ultrasparc RocK can physically address 256 TB of RAM. 812 pins are for useful signal work of its 16 cores.
Total of 2395 pins per chip. It is actually a sea of pins. However, Sun's architecture design is different from AMD or Intel's. Cores are scheduled automatically, quite contrary to X86 cores. Why? You know, you can't learn an old dog the new tricks. :)

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