Oracle Magazine, Nov/Dec 2017
INTERVIEW ORACLE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2017 17 Accelerators DAX in Software in Silicon version 2 in SPARC M8 Choy Weve increased the clock rate on the Data Analytics Accelerator cores and therefore the ability to process with Data Analytics Accelerators We ve also implemented open application programming interfaces APIs for DAX so the use cases for Software in Silicon version 2 have expanded significantly from the initial release of the DAX in Software in Silicon in SPARC M7 This API feature in Software in Silicon version 2 enables the 8 times more efficient Java streams processing I mentioned earlier We ve also added some new functionality called Oracle Numbers which provides consistent precision floating point calculations We have Oracle Numbers accelerators on the SPARC M8 processor which help to further accelerate database analytics performance Oracle Magazine Whats new in security for SPARC M8 Choy Software in Silicon version 2 on SPARC M8 continues to include silicon secured memory which protects against situations such as invalid and stale references buffer overflows and buffer overreads It protects against the approaches used in the Venom and Heartbleed exploits of a couple of years ago Software in Silicon version 2 on SPARC M8 also continues to include on chip encryption that comes with minimal performance impact Weve enhanced the range of cryptography ciphers on the SPARC M8 processor We support AES ciphers and hash functions such as SHA Secure Hash Algorithm SPARC M8 is the only processor in the industry to natively embed SHA 3 The performance that we can deliver for these types of security enhancements compared to SPARC M7 is a generational improvement With SPARC M8 we ve doubled the security performance over SPARC M7 PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOB ADLER THE VERBATIM AGENCY NEXT STEPS LEARN more about Oracles SPARC M8 LEARN more about Oracles SuperCluster M8 engineered system WATCH the Oracles SPARC M8 launch webcast
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