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Message 17263 - Posted: 21 Nov 2005, 5:58:29 UTC
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Something new:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/wkreview.html#10


"We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo
Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest.
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Message 17271 - Posted: 21 Nov 2005, 21:00:01 UTC - in response to Message 17263.  

Something new:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/wkreview.html#10



ASTRO: do you mean this?

that UltraSPARC T1 processor performance could eliminate the number of Web servers in the world by half, slashing power requirements and having the same effect in reducing carbon dioxide emissions as planting one million acres of trees.
WOW!
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Message 17273 - Posted: 22 Nov 2005, 0:13:11 UTC - in response to Message 17271.  

Something new:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/wkreview.html#10



ASTRO: do you mean this?

that UltraSPARC T1 processor performance could eliminate the number of Web servers in the world by half, slashing power requirements and having the same effect in reducing carbon dioxide emissions as planting one million acres of trees.
WOW!


I don\'t think we need hold our breath. This puppy will take time to be born, let alone grow. \"10,480 AMD Opteron processor cores [totaling more than 50 trillion floating point operations per second (teraFLOPS)\"

Historically, hardware is way out in front of software... What good a sports car if there is molasses in the tank?

Of course, Gates said, at SC|05, that he wants M$ in the game, too.

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