X-Nico

4 unusual facts about SPARC


Homeless International

Technical support for the relocation of 30,000 railway dwelling families and 20,000 pavement dwelling families to permanent housing by SPARC; including bridge finance for the construction of Milan Nagar, a pilot 5-story building built by pavement dwellers.

Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies

MCST develops microprocessors based on 2 different instruction set architecture (ISA): Elbrus and SPARC

Elbrus-90micro (1998-2010) is a computer line based on SPARC instruction set architecture (ISA) microprocessors: MCST R80, R150, R500, R500S and MCST-4R working at 80, 150, 500 and 1000 MHz.

Steven Muchnick

He then went on to apply his knowledge of compilers as a vital member of the teams that developed two computer architectures — PA-RISC at Hewlett-Packard and SPARC at Sun Microsystems.


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AES implementations

SPARC S3 core processors include the AES instruction set, which is used with SPARC T4 and SPARC T5 systems.

ECos

eCos runs on a wide variety of hardware platforms, including ARM, CalmRISC, FR-V, Hitachi H8, IA-32, Motorola 68000, Matsushita AM3x, MIPS, NEC V8xx, Nios II, PowerPC, SPARC, and SuperH.

Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer

In October 1992 the ECS was reconfigured as a SPARC-hosted Computing Surface with three SPARC "host" processors running SunOS and around 380 T800s.

Gun data computer

As of 2009, the U.S. Army was transitioning from a version based on a Sun Microsystems SPARC computer running the Linux kernel to a version based on laptop computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.

HyperSPARC

The hyperSPARC, code-named "Pinnacle", is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC Version 8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Ross Technology for Cypress Semiconductor.

NaN

most processors (including those of the Intel/AMD x86-32/x86-64 family, the Motorola 68000 family, the AIM PowerPC family, the ARM family, and the Sun SPARC family) set the signaled/quiet bit to non-zero if the NaN is quiet, and to zero if the NaN is signaling.

Object Pascal

Currently, FPC can generate code for x86, x86-64, PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM processors, and for various operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS and Mac OS X (with an Xcode integration kit).

OpenStep

NeXT's first operating system was NeXTSTEP, a sophisticated Mach-UNIX based operating system that originally ran only on NeXT's Motorola 68k-based workstations and that was then ported to run on 32-bit Intel x86-based "IBM-compatible" personal computers, PA-RISC-based workstations from Hewlett-Packard, and SPARC-based workstations from Sun Microsystems.

Oracle VM Server for SPARC

When hosts are connected to a shared storage (SAN or NAS), running guest domains can be securely live migrated between servers without outage (starting with Oracle VM Server for SPARC version 2.1).

Logical Domains (LDoms or LDOM) is the server virtualization and partitioning technology from Sun Microsystems released in April 2007 for a range of UNIX server computers based on SPARC V9 architecture.

RTEMS

RTEMS is also popular for space uses since it supports multiple microprocessors developed for use in space including SPARC, ERC32 and LEON, MIPS Mongoose-V, Coldfire, and PowerPC architectures, which are available in space hardened models.

SPARCbook

The SPARCbook is a line of laptop computers based on SPARC microprocessors produced by Tadpole Computer (now General Dynamics).


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