Carrier Grade Linux On Sun's UltraSPARC T2 Proc

(CGL) has now been successfully ported to Sun's chip multi-threaded (CMT) UltraSPARC T2 processor. The Wind River Linux 3.0 and Workbench development suite is now available on Sun's open CMT processor platforms and on Sun Netra T5220 servers, Netra CP3260 ATCA Blade Servers and the UltraSPARC T2 Reference Design Kit.

The networking industry now has a fully integrated, optimized and tested solution of the leading multi-core processing hardware and CGL, enabling companies to quickly develop and deploy next-generation networking applications, thanks to Sun and Wind River.

"The combination of Sun's enterprise class UltraSPARC CMT platforms and Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux gives telecom and networking system developers a new and significantly superior vehicle for delivering their most mission critical applications to enterprise and service provider customers," said Mike Knudsen, vice president, Sun OEM.

Mike Langlois, general manager of the Networking and Telecommunications Business Unit at Wind River, observed that, "Implementing high-performance multicore processing solutions into networking elements offers many benefits to telecom and networking equipment providers. By leveraging an integrated solution like Sun's UltraSPARC T2 and Wind River's multicore-aware Linux and development tools, equipment providers can develop sophisticated applications that fully exploit the use of each core for ultimate performance, cost and throughput efficiency."

An important aspect of this announcement is that it highlights the openness of Sun's CMT platform and substantially expands the range of embedded system applications that can be served with Sun's CMT technology. This development also brings the benefits of Sun's CMT processors, such as low power per thread, integrated crypto functionality, dual on-board 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network interface units, and industry standard bus interconnect technology, to a wide range of embedded system applications such as load balancing, routing, security and application acceleration.