New SPARC Server Delivers High Performance, Low Power and Seven New World Records
Today Sun announced the Sparc Enterprise T5440 -based on Sun's eight-core UltraSparc T2 Plus processor.
The T5440, which is being manufactured by Sun business partner Fujitsu Ltd., runs Solaris 10 and can support up to 256 threads and 512GB of memory when fully loaded.This multithreading capability essentially means if you were running historically 256 separate machines, you can collapse them on to one," thus saving on hardware and systems management costs.
What is really interesting about the server is that it's a compact system that fits in a 4U rack (1U is 1.75 in. high) and includes a variety of power management features, such as the ability to park idle threads and disable processor cores when they aren't needed. The server also offers self-regulating fan controls, another feature aimed at minimizing power use.
Earlier Niagara servers were primarily for network-facing applications or Web-tier work, but the newer machines are powerful enough to run large OLTP (online transaction processing) databases and packaged software from the likes of Oracle and SAP and the support for larger memory configurations also makes the T5440 good for virtualization and server consolidation.
If you missed the LIVE webcast earlier today, please visit SPARC Enterprise Launch
For more information on the World Record Benchmarks for the T5440, please visit T5440 World Record Performance
What is really interesting about the server is that it's a compact system that fits in a 4U rack (1U is 1.75 in. high) and includes a variety of power management features, such as the ability to park idle threads and disable processor cores when they aren't needed. The server also offers self-regulating fan controls, another feature aimed at minimizing power use.
Earlier Niagara servers were primarily for network-facing applications or Web-tier work, but the newer machines are powerful enough to run large OLTP (online transaction processing) databases and packaged software from the likes of Oracle and SAP and the support for larger memory configurations also makes the T5440 good for virtualization and server consolidation.
If you missed the LIVE webcast earlier today, please visit SPARC Enterprise Launch
For more information on the World Record Benchmarks for the T5440, please visit T5440 World Record Performance
