Azul Vega2
Posted by Bryan Catanzaro on December 4, 2006
Azul Systems announced their second generation machine today, which is designed for highly threaded Java workloads. Each of their Vega2 chips has 48 simple cores, arranged in 6 clusters of 8 processors each, connected around a central crossbar. Each chip has 4 on chip memory controllers as well as a dedicated SERDES link to every other chip in the system, to support a flat memory space.
They are claiming a world record score on SPECjbb2005 for systems running a single Java VM. In context, their score is about 6% better than a 128 chip/128 core Fujitsu Sparc64 machine running a single Java VM, only they're using just 4 chips (albeit with 192 cores).
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They are claiming a world record score on SPECjbb2005 for systems running a single Java VM. In context, their score is about 6% better than a 128 chip/128 core Fujitsu Sparc64 machine running a single Java VM, only they're using just 4 chips (albeit with 192 cores).
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