Had the opportunity of listening to Kunle Olukotun’s talk on Chip Multi Processors (CMP) last Friday. Dr. Kunle is one of the founders of Afara Websystems where Niagara was conceived. And SUN, having acquired Afara in 2002, is hoping to make a comeback with Niagara.With 8 multiprocessor cores and speeds of upto 32Gbps, Niagara is poised to take over the as an extremely powerful and "cool" server. These servers will realise their full potential when they are utilised by highly pipelined function calls with parallel processing needs. Sequential programming will soon be an artifact and parallel programming will emerge as the norm.
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