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SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers
 Sun Microsystems Inc. impressed judges the most in the category of servers with four processor or less with their latest SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers.
The new servers announced October 9, 2007 are the first to use
UltraSparc T2 processor with multithreading technology for better
virtualization capabilities and web scale. The servers hold the power
of 64 virtual systems in a single server, making them ideally suited
for at tier 1 and 2 workloads in the enterprise space.
SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers double the number of
processing threads and increase floating point capabilities eight times
over the previous generation, and are the first servers to integrate 10
Gigabit Ethernet technology and I/O directly on the chip. The SPARC
Enterprise T5120 and T5220 are capable of web serving over four times
the number of users, in 1/4 the space at nearly 1/4 the cost, with
reportedly six times better performance per watt compared to
competitive UNIX/RISC-based servers.
The systems have a motherboard with a single UltraSparc T2 CPU
comprised of eight processing cores, PCI-Express I/O functionality and
two-10Gb XAUI ports. The 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor also obtained
the best single-JVM single chip results on the SPECjbb2005 server-side
Java benchmark.
To make life easier for IT staff, the same chassis, power
supplies, disks and fans are used on the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
and Intel Corp. processor-based variants of the servers, and the remote
management capabilities are compatible with Sun's x64 family of
servers, with standardized interfaces that are backwards compatible
with the previous generation of SPARC remote management facilities.
To boot, the servers also provide maximum energy efficiencies
and the best performance per watt on the market, and operate the free
and open source Solaris operating systems. They include built-in open
source, free virtualization capabilities with Solaris Containers and
Logical Domains (LDoms) that help keep IT costs low.
The SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers started shipping October 17 with pricing starting at $13,995.
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