Networking Performance of UltraSPARC T1

Sunay “FireEngine” Tripathi wrote an interesting piece about Niagara and networking:

The result is amazing network performance for this beast. Performs 5-6 times the performance of your typical x86 based CPU.

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We are also planning to hide the core running networking from the application effectively getting TOE for free without suffering from the drawbacks of offloading networking to a spearate piece of hardware.