The latest from Sun Microsystems is that the company has entered the commercial silicon commercial silicon market with the UltraSPARC T2, billed as the world's fastest commodity microprocessor. Available separately from Sun's own systems, it offers eight cores and eight threads per core. With each thread capable of running its own operating system, the T2 provides a 64-way system on a single chip. Developed under the "Niagara 2" program, the processor design will be offered to the free and open source community via the general public license (GPL), and it provides support for the open-source Solaris OS in addition to other real-time operating systems and future versions of Ubuntu Linux.
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