On 30/01/18 05:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
The Sun T series looked very interesting to me when it came out. It looked to me as if the market didn't take note. Perhaps too many had already written Sun off -- at least to the extent of using their hardware for new purposes. Also Sun's cost structure for marketing and sales was probably a big drag. Most developers were totally unprepared for parallel computing at
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 03:49:54PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: the time. So most people couldn't write software to take advantage of the chips.
That was true of the non-Sun experimental architectures, like the Intel 432 and various VLIW machines. The Sun T machines ran ordinary SPARC code without any changes or recompiling. It very definitely wasn't for applications that already parallelized. Our customers didn't have such things! Hadoop was almost unknown to them then. I suspect Sun had already fallen off too many people's radar, and the performance improvement didn't change anyone's minds. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain