Sun Microsystems officials are touting the work Sun and Intel have done over the past two years to ensure that Solaris works seamlessly with Intel’s chip microarchitecture code-named Nehalem. Intel officials have said they expect servers powered by the eight-core Nehalem EX processor to begin appearing on the market in early 2010. Sun says Solaris has been able to take advantage of the various power, cooling, virtualization and management features in the upcoming Xeon processors.
– Sun Microsystems officials are touting the performance of the Solaris
operating system when run on servers powered by Intel’s upcoming quot;Nehalem
EX quot; processors.
In a recent white
paper, Sun officials said the tight collaboration with Intel over the past
two years has resulted in a Sola…