The Four Hundred--Azul's Network-Attached Processing to Shake Up Server Market

The Four Hundred--Azul's Network-Attached Processing to Shake Up Server Market: "Moreover, these architectures do not scale very linearly, and the best anyone could do is to make a big 32- or 64-way SMP box like the current high-end server vendors already do. When Azul was talking about big, cache-coherent SMP scalability, it had a much larger box in mind. And that's why Azul decided to take the hard road and build a custom processor to do only those functions it would need, like garbage collection or running object-oriented programming routines, to support VMs and their application workloads. "