Niagara-II "ROCK" samples on display

mritunjai writes: SUN CEO Jonathan Schwartzis showing off the latest samples of next generation chip on his blog. The Chip — code names "Rock", is a 16 core chip with an unspecified number (though rumoured to be 2 to 4) of thread execution units per core. SUN is also building systems with upto 8 of these processors with 512 FB-DIMMs supporting upto 256 TB of RAM in a single system.