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In the mid 1990s, Sun started to transform
itself into a seller of large scale Symmetric multiprocessing servers. Sun
manufactured and marketed the 8-processor SPARCserver 1000 and 20-processor
SPARCcenter 2000. Both of these built on work done in conjunction with Xerox
PARC.
During the late 1990s, this transition was accelerated by the acquisition of
Cray Business Systems Division from Silicon Graphics. Cray's 32-bit CS6400 "Superserver",
related to the SPARCcenter, was followed by a 64-bit joint design by Cray and
Sun which was transformed into the Sun Enterprise 10000 large-scale server.
Motivated by the amplified fame of web-serving database-searching applications,
blade servers were also emphasized.
The UltraSPARC T1 is notable for its use of eight cores. This is part of an
industry move toward horizontal scaling, meaning the use of more CPUs with lower
clock rates. This is important to data centers where hard disks and processors
make large demands on power and generate the most heat.
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