SourceT® Frequently Asked Questions
Hardware
Why does SourceT only support Itanium-based servers?
Itanium2 is the only industry standard microprocessor that has the necessary security features required to build a Genuinely Secure operating environment. These features include:
- Memory compartmentalization
- Independent read/write/execute privileges per page
- Protected stack architecture
- Four levels of privilege
Architecture
Is SourceT based on Linux or Unix?
No, SourceT was designed and developed from scratch to take advantage of the unique security and performance properties of the Itanium2 microprocessor. It does not share any code with Linux, Unix or any other existing operating system.
Performance
How does SourceT improve application performance?
The SourceT architecture improves performance in two ways. First, it has an asynchronous, non-blocking network I/O stack built into it, which improves the performance of network I/O functions by at least a factor of two. Second, it takes advantage of the parallelism of the Itanium2 microprocessor to speed up compute intensive operations such as cryptography.