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    SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems...
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    The ANSI-SPARC Architecture (American National Standards Institute, Standards Planning And Requirements Committee), is an abstract design standard for...
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  • The SPARC Enterprise series is a range of UNIX server computers based on the SPARC V9 architecture. It was co-developed by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu...
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  • x86 architecture as well as several 8-bit architectures are little-endian. Most RISC architectures (SPARC, Power, PowerPC, MIPS) were originally big-endian...
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  • dedicated cryptographic unit per core. The cores use the 64-bit SPARC Version 9 architecture running at frequencies between 2.85 GHz and 3.0 GHz, and are...
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  • ISBN 978-0-12-374493-7. Patterson, David; Hennessy, John (2011). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (5th ed.). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-383872-8...
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  • SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a computer instruction set architecture. SPARC may also refer to: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources...
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  • The SPARC T-series family of RISC processors and server computers, based on the SPARC V9 architecture, was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and...
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  • Oracle Corporation, June 2012 "Oracle SPARC T5-2, SPARC T5-4, SPARC T5-8, and SPARC T5-1B Server Architecture, An Oracle White Paper, p. 29" (PDF), www...
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    Architectural Manual, Version 8". SPARC International. p. 244. The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 9 (PDF). SPARC International. 1994. F.3.2 Attributes...
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    Sun to implement the 64-bit SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA). Marc Tremblay was a co-microarchitect. The UltraSPARC is a four-issue superscalar...
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    new-from-the-ground-up SPARC microprocessor implementation that conforms to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 specification and executes the full SPARC V9 instruction...
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    VAX-11/784 superminicomputer. The only systems that beat it were the Sun SPARC and MIPS R2000 RISC-based workstations. Further, as the CPU was designed...
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    The microSPARC (code-named Tsunami) is a discontinued microprocessor implementing the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA), developed by Sun Microsystems...
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  • between registers).: 9–12  Some RISC architectures such as PowerPC, SPARC, RISC-V, ARM, and MIPS are load–store architectures.: 9–12  For instance, in a load–store...
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    as the MIPS and SPARC systems. IBM eventually produced RISC designs based on further work on the 801 concept, the IBM POWER architecture, PowerPC, and Power...
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  • exception occurs SPARC International, Inc. The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 9. PTR Prentice Hall. Sun Microsystems. UltraSPARC Architecture 2005. Draft...
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    computer servers and workstations built on its own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture, as well as on x86-based AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors...
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  • The SPARC T3 microprocessor (previously known as UltraSPARC T3, codenamed Rainbow Falls and also referred to as UltraSPARC KT or Niagara-3 during development)...
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  • reconfigured as needed. SPARC hypervisors run in hyperprivileged execution mode, which was introduced in the sun4v architecture. The sun4v processors released...
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  • and SPARC uses "output register 7" or o7. In some others, such as PA-RISC, RISC-V, and the IBM System/360 and its successors, including z/Architecture, the...
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  • enforcing page coloring, which is described below. Some early RISC processors (SPARC, RS/6000) took this approach. It has not been used recently, as the hardware...
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  • OpenSPARC is an open-source hardware project, started in December 2005, for CPUs implementing the SPARC instruction architecture. The initial contribution...
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    The SuperSPARC is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems. 33 and 40 MHz versions...
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    The UltraSPARC III, code-named "Cheetah", is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems...
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  • fourth generation of UltraSPARC microprocessors, and implement the 64-bit SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA). The UltraSPARC IV was originally to...
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  • the in and out instructions found on microprocessors based on the x86 architecture. Different forms of these two instructions can copy one, two or four...
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  • is a proliferation of side-channel attacks plaguing modern computer architectures. Many of these attacks measure slight, nondeterministic variations in...
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    Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems...
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    The UltraSPARC II, code-named "Blackbird", is a microprocessor implementation of the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems...
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