Sun's UltraSparc T2: A Highly-Threaded Server-on-a-Chip
Part of Seminar Series: ECE Distinguished Lecture Series
Date: Monday, November 5, 2007
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: ACES Auditorium, ACES 2.302
Greg Grohoski
Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems
Abstract
Sun's UltraSparc T2 is a server-on-a-chip designed for high throughput and low power. It contains 64 threads, wire-speed cryptography for the two embedded 10 Gb Ethernet ports, massive memory bandwidth, and advanced virtualization capabilities. Mr. Grohoski will give a technical overview of the design and present some benchmark results.
Speaker Biography
Mr. Grohoski is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems' Austin Design Center. He coarchitected and led RTL development of the UltraSparc T2 core. Prior to Sun, Mr. Grohoski co-founded a startup, Digital Archway, and served as the VP of Hardware Development. Previously, he worked at Intel, Cyrix, and IBM, where he was a principal designer of the IBM RS/6000 and Power2. Mr. Grohoski holds a BSEE from Cornell and an MSEE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.