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Zurich Salutes Sun Chips: Page 2 of 2

"We were a little afraid of whether the new UltraSPARCS were stable, and we wanted to compare them," Rose says. “In the next weeks we will merge the partitions together in one big machine.”

Sun is using UltraSPARC IVs to push a technology called multi-threading out to its users. Multi-threading is designed to mix and match different generations of the UltraSPARC processors within the same domain -- with the goal of boosting performance without downtime.

In addition to the University of Zurich, Daimler-Chrysler, and Vodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD) have already implemented the technology.

— James Rogers, Site Editor, Next-gen Data Center Forum