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Sun And Wind River Deliver Carrier Grade Linux For Next-Generation Networking On Sun's UltraSPARC T2
Sun Microsystems has announced that Wind River has completed the port of Wind River Linux 3.0 and Workbench development suite to Sun's chip multi-threaded (CMT) UltraSPARC T2 processor. Wind River Linux 3.0 is the first Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) available for Sun's open CMT processor platforms and will run on Sun Netra T5220 servers and Netra CP3260 ATCA Blade Servers, as well as the UltraSPARC T2 Reference Design Kit.
With this announcement, Sun and Wind River are providing the networking industry with a fully integrated, optimized and tested solution of the industry's leading multi-core processing hardware and CGL, enabling companies to quickly develop and deploy next-generation networking applications.
"The combination of Sun's enterprise class UltraSPARC CMT platforms and Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux gives telecom and networking system developers a new and significantly superior vehicle for delivering their most mission critical applications to enterprise and service provider customers," said Mike Knudsen, vice president, Sun OEM.
"Implementing high-performance multicore processing solutions into networking elements offers many benefits to telecom and networking equipment providers," said Mike Langlois, general manager of the Networking and Telecommunications Business Unit at Wind River. "By leveraging an integrated solution like Sun's UltraSPARC T2 and Wind River's multicore-aware Linux and development tools, equipment providers can develop sophisticated applications that fully exploit the use of each core for ultimate performance, cost and throughput efficiency."
The UltraSPARC T2 Reference Design Kit is available at http://www.sun.com/products/microelectronics/support.jsp. For more details about Sun's Netra server range please click here or call Acardia on 0845 230 1055.
Published: 17 March 2009