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[ SuperSPARC II [1] SPARC, (Scalable Processor Architecture)

a RISC architecture developed by Sun Microsystems introduced in 1986 as 32-bit and early 90s as 64-bit SMP architecture. Implementations of the original 32-bit SPARC V7 architecture were initially designed and used in Sun's Sun-4 workstation and server systems, replacing their earlier Sun-3 systems based on the Motorola 68020 series of processors. Later UltraSPARC processors implementing the SPARC V9 architecture were used in SMP and ccNUMA servers and designed for 64-bit operations. Oracle continued the development of the SPARC V9 architecture after its acquisition of Sun, as recently with the Sparc M7 [2] [3].

Chess Programs

SPARC Unix workstations were popular systems to run computer chess programs in the 90s, such as Ferret and DarkThought. Kasparov Sparc by Saitek was the last chess computer programmed by Kathe and Dan Spracklen [6]. The parallel MIT chess programs StarTech and *Socrates ran on NCSA's CM-5 with 512 SuperSPARC cores [7].

See also

External Links

UltraSPARC

T/M-Series

OpenSPARC

Assembly

SPARCstation

References

  1. ↑ Die shot of Sun SuperSPARC II (STP1021APGA-75) microprocessor by Pauli Rautakorpi, October 28, 2013, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
  2. ↑ Oracle’s SPARC T7 and SPARC M7 Server Architecture (pdf)
  3. ↑ SPARC M7 Chip - 32 cores - Mind Blowing performance (Angelo's Soapbox)
  4. ↑ Sketch of SPARC Subroutines by Mark Smotherman
  5. ↑ SPARC from Wikipedia
  6. ↑ Gardner Hendrie (2005). Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen. pdf from The Computer History Museum
  7. ↑ CM-5/512 | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites

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