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Chapter 1
The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT)
By any measure, Sun’s
Business Challenges for Web 2.0
Marked by the prevalence of Web services and
•Building out for Web Scale
Web scale applications engender a new pace and urgency to infrastructure deployment. Organizations must accelerate time to market and time to service, while delivering scalable
At the same time, organizations must reduce their environmental impact by working within the power, cooling, and space available in their current datacenters. Operational costs too are receiving new scrutiny, along with system administrative costs that can account for up to 40 percent of an IT budget. Simplicity and speed are paramount, giving organizations the ability to respond quickly to dynamic business conditions. Organizations are also striving to eliminate vendor
1.In August of 2006, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) began offering a substantial energy rebate for purchasing and deploying Sun Fire / Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 servers