Some info about the upcoming Sun Niagara chips has been leaked; The Register got some output of an OpenSolaris box running on a 8-way Niagara chip, showing 32 threads at a time, which makes Niagara very interesting for webbased stuff. I definitely would like to see some Apache2 benchmarks on this stuff, and can't wait to have one of these in our computer room. The first server based on the Niagara chip is believed to be called the Sun Fire T200.


Ben Rockwood has some more info about the different Sun chipsets and their codenames. Interesting to see is that a Niagara chip is in fact a scaled down UltraSparc II.