One of the very coolest things about Oracle SPARC is Oracle's
ability to engineer the processor to do what the software really
needs. This moves intensive processing from general purpose compute
cores, to special purpose pipelines. As these are designed to do
just a small number of things, they are simple, fast, and we can
have a lot of them. Trouble is, how do you know they're really
doing something.One of the most impressive of these is Database
Analytics Acceleration...