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Rock (processor), the Glossary

Index Rock (processor)

Rock (or ROCK) was a multithreading, multicore, SPARC microprocessor under development at Sun Microsystems.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 44 relations: Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, Association for Computing Machinery, Ball grid array, Byte, EE Times, Floating-point unit, Fully Buffered DIMM, Hamburg, Hardware scout, High-performance computing, International Solid-State Circuits Conference, International Symposium on Computer Architecture, James R. Goodman, Jonathan I. Schwartz, Larry Ellison, Marc Tremblay, Microprocessor, Multi-core processor, Multithreading (computer architecture), Open Firmware, OpenSolaris, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Solaris, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, PARC (company), PCI Express, PCI-X, Reuters, Scott McNealy, Single instruction, multiple data, SPARC, SPARC T series, Speculative multithreading, Sun Microsystems, Sun Neptune, Symmetric multiprocessing, Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, Tape-out, Task parallelism, The New York Times, The Register, Transactional memory, Visual Instruction Set, 65 nm process.

  2. Oracle microprocessors
  3. SPARC microprocessors
  4. Sun microprocessors
  5. Transactional memory

Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation

The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing.

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Ball grid array

A ball grid array (BGA) is a type of surface-mount packaging (a chip carrier) used for integrated circuits.

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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EE Times

EE Times (Electronic Engineering Times) is an electronics industry magazine published in the United States since 1972.

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Floating-point unit

A floating-point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers.

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Fully Buffered DIMM

A Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) is a type of memory module used in computer systems.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hardware scout

Hardware scout is a technique that uses otherwise idle processor execution resources to perform prefetching during cache misses.

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High-performance computing

High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems.

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International Solid-State Circuits Conference

International Solid-State Circuits Conference is a global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and Systems-on-a-Chip.

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International Symposium on Computer Architecture

The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) is an annual academic conference on computer architecture, generally viewed as the top-tier in the field.

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James R. Goodman

James Richard "Jim" Goodman (born July 16, 1944) retired as professor of computer science at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand, and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Jonathan I. Schwartz

Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is an American businessman.

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Larry Ellison

Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who cofounded software company Oracle Corporation.

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Marc Tremblay

Marc Tremblay is a distinguished engineer at Microsoft.

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Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.

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Multi-core processor

A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores (for example, dual-core or quad-core), each of which reads and executes program instructions.

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Multithreading (computer architecture)

In computer architecture, multithreading is the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution.

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Open Firmware

Open Firmware is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris is a discontinued open-source computer operating system based on Solaris and created by Sun Microsystems.

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Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Oracle Solaris

Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Oracle VM Server for SPARC

Logical Domains (LDoms or LDOM) is the server virtualization and partitioning technology for SPARC V9 processors.

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PARC (company)

SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California.

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PCI Express

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards.

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PCI-X

PCI-X, short for Peripheral Component Interconnect eXtended, is a computer bus and expansion card standard that enhances the 32-bit PCI local bus for higher bandwidth demanded mostly by servers and workstations.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Scott McNealy

Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954) is an American businessman.

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Single instruction, multiple data

Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a type of parallel processing in Flynn's taxonomy.

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SPARC

SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems. Rock (processor) and SPARC are sun microprocessors.

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SPARC T series

The SPARC T-series family of RISC processors and server computers, based on the SPARC V9 architecture, was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and later by Oracle Corporation after its acquisition of Sun.

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Speculative multithreading

Thread Level Speculation (TLS), also known as Speculative Multi-threading, or Speculative Parallelization, is a technique to speculatively execute a section of computer code that is anticipated to be executed later in parallel with the normal execution on a separate independent thread.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.

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Sun Neptune

Neptune, also known as Sun Multithreaded 10 GbE, is a dual 10 Gbit/s, multithreaded, PCIe x8-based network interface controller for 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

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Symmetric multiprocessing

Symmetric multiprocessing or shared-memory multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes.

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Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

SPAA, the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, is an academic conference in the fields of parallel computing and distributed computing.

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Tape-out

In electronics and photonics design, tape-out or tapeout is the final stage of the design process for integrated circuits or printed circuit boards before they are sent for manufacturing.

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Task parallelism

Task parallelism (also known as function parallelism and control parallelism) is a form of parallelization of computer code across multiple processors in parallel computing environments.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Register

The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.

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Transactional memory

In computer science and engineering, transactional memory attempts to simplify concurrent programming by allowing a group of load and store instructions to execute in an atomic way.

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Visual Instruction Set

Visual Instruction Set, or VIS, is a SIMD instruction set extension for SPARC V9 microprocessors developed by Sun Microsystems.

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65 nm process

The 65 nm process is an advanced lithographic node used in volume CMOS (MOSFET) semiconductor fabrication.

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See also

Oracle microprocessors

SPARC microprocessors

Sun microprocessors

Transactional memory

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_(processor)

Also known as Rock processor, Sun Rock, Supernova (server).