Sun Microsystems may have dropped a bit of weight by the time Oracle officially acquires the company. According to two people briefed on Sun’s plans, the company has canceled its Rock chip project, putting an end to one of its biggest revitalization bets.
Sun has been working on the Rock project for more than five years, hoping to create a chip with many cores that would trounce competing server chips from I.B.M. and Intel. The company has talked about Rock in the loftiest of terms and built it up as a game-changing product. In April 2007, Jonathan Schwartz, the chief executive of Sun, bragged about receiving the first test versions of Rock.
But the two people familiar with Sun’s plans say Rock has met with an unceremonious end. The people requested anonymity, as they are not authorized to speak with the press about Sun’s plans.
富士通(Fujitsu)は14日、都内で行ったイベントで、政府が主導する次世代スーパーコンピューター計画で開発した 「ビーナス(Venus)」と呼ばれる世界最速CPU「SPARC64 VIII fx」を披露した。 「SPARC64 VIII fx」のプロセッサコアは8個で、演算処理速度は128GFlops。1秒間に1280億回の計算が可能。