The Tera-Scale Effect
In the past year, Intel issued a series of powerful chips under the new Nehalem microarchitecture
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, with large numbers of cores and extensive memory capacity. This new class of chips is is part of a bigger Intel initiative referred to as Tera-Scale Computing
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. Cisco has released their Unified Computing System
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(UCS) equipped with a unique extended memory and high speed network within the box, which is specifically geared to take advantage of this type of CPU architecture .
This new class of hardware has the potential to revolutionize the IT landscape as we know it.
In this post, I want to focus primarily on the potential implications on application architecture, more specifically on the application platform landscape. more...