I see from www.sun.com <http://www.sun.com/> that SUN is offering a Sun
Fire T2000 (with the amazing 32 concurrent threaded Niagara chips) for sixty
days for free.
That is cool, both in the heat- and the street-sense of the term.
However, what is uncool is that if you are Irish, you need not apply.
https://www.sun.com/secure/servers/coolthreads/tnb/qualify.jsp
Ah well, I suppose we will have to explore the 10 concurrent threaded CELL
chip instead.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/
(yes, I know, they are aimed at different markets - but both are interesting
when exploring heavily concurrent code).
Eamon
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