Thursday Jul 31, 2008  UltraSPARC T2 benchmarks  I was
presenting to a customer this morning and the question of what
applications does the UltraSPARC T2 excel at came up. A very
similar question came up when I was presenting at CommunityOne,
so it's probably something I should talk about.  I do work on
benchmarks - I've described before some of the analysis I did
for the development of CPU2006 - but I don't get involved in the
"marketing" of benchmark results - I spend my time at the
disassembly level. So this is a bit of a departure for me.
Anyway the answer the question of "What's a T2 good for?" is
basically "Everything". The only exception is that it's not
going to be much use for a customer who only wants to run a
single copy of a single threaded application "and that is all".
But most people want to run a bunch of codes, or multiple copies
of the same code, or some multithreaded app. All these are very
suitable for the UltraSPARC T2, or UltraSPARC T2+.  In terms of
evidence, here's a bunch of benchmar