By Rik Myslewski for the Register
Multicore Expo Sever virtualization is at the top of most IT admins’ to-do lists, but it’s still has a long way to go in the development of management software, I/O technology, and storage technology before its full value can be realized.
Sun’s Distinguished Engineer, Denis Sheahan, called server virtualization “a key technology to make the most of multicore systems.” He should know, seeing as how his specialty is multicore CMT processors such as Sun’s UltraSPARC T2 Plus, née Victoria Falls, which includes eight processing cores with eight threads each, plus the memory controller, I/O, and SMP support on the same chip.
