NEW UltraSPARC T2 Plus Uniboard X-Option

Tuesday Nov 11, 2008

This is an interesting concept for a product.  The new Sun Fire USBRDT 5240 Uniboard is built on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor and designed to run seamlessly in existing installed Sun Fire 4800, E4900, 6800, E6900, F12k, F15k, E20k, E25k servers.  This way you can plug more computing power into existing open slots in your datacenter without changing your existing footprint.

CMT Key Applications (we've shown benchmarks in these applications for CMT in previous posts):

• Virtualization and consolidation
• OLTP databases
• SOA infrastructure implementations
• Data-intensive applications
• Security applications
• Web, middleware, and application tier workloads, especially Java environments
• Multithreaded HPC workloads with large instruction and data sets
• New web services deployments

Technical Highlights:

• Processor - Eight-core 1.2-GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors; two processors per Uniboard, 128 threads. Architecture SPARC V9 architecture, ECC protected Cache per 4-MB integrated L2 processor
• Main Memory - 32 FB-DIMM slots, system maximum of 128 GB (32 x 4 GB); minimum of 64 GB (32 x 2 GB)
• Software - Operating Minimum: Solaris 10 8/07 OS plus patches; Preloaded: Solaris 10 5/08 OS plus patches or later
• Dimensions - Height: 44.45 mm (1.75 in.) Width: 438.15 mm (17.25 in.) Depth: 508 mm (20.0 in.) Weight: 13.6 kg (30.0 lb.)

Customers can trade in their old Uniboards, old Sun or non-Sun servers and receive a discount toward the price of their new
Sun Fire USBRDT 5240 Uniboard. For more details, visit sun.com/tradeins/

Web Resources

• Sun.com - Sun Fire Uniboard X-Option Page - http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/uniboard/index.jsp
• Sun Fire USBRDT 5240 Uniboard Administration Guide and Product http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/usbrdt.5240.brd#hic