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New Energy Efficient Servers Outperform and Outscale
Competitive x86 Systems Delivering 5x More Performance, 2.5x Better
Performance Per Watt in 1/2 the Space; Third Generation Solaris-Powered
CMT Servers Provide Ideal Platform for Web Scale, Java and Database
Applications Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: JAVA) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) today expanded the Sun
and Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise server line with the introduction of two
new systems based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. Scaling from the edge of the network to the heart of the enterprise, the third-generation CMT SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers
deliver breakthrough performance and scalability and help enable
customers to consolidate the datacenter into an ultra-dense, energy
efficient compute environment, optimized and managed by the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).
The SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers deliver up to 16 times
higher compute density than competitive two-socket x86 systems and up
to 32 times higher compute density than competitive four-socket x86
systems. The Sun and Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers
provide up to three times more performance than competitive RISC
systems in half the space.
"The performance and scalability we've designed into these new
multi-socket systems with the UltraSPARC T2 Plus and Solaris is jaw
dropping," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group,
Sun Microsystems. "In just two-and-a-half years we've increased CMT
performance by over 5x without sacrificing space or power efficiency.
Customers can now scale more with less whether they're developing Web
2.0 services or running classic CRM or ERP."
"The new SPARC Enterprise servers we are announcing today empower
organizations to virtualize their compute infrastructures and build
highly scalable, highly efficient and robust Internet infrastructures
for the delivery of breakthrough web and enterprise services," said
Tatsuo Tomita, corporate senior vice president, Fujitsu Limited. "These
SPARC Enterprise servers are faster and provide better price
performance than competitive RISC-based servers and offer a compelling
migration path from proprietary UNIX systems. The innovative SPARC
Enterprise servers and open source Solaris OS - combined with Fujitsu's
mission-critical systems business - benefit customers by significantly
reducing operational costs with breakthrough compute density and
extreme power efficiency. The eco-friendliness of the SPARC Enterprise
T5140 and T5240 servers is an added benefit to our customers in terms
of lowering their environmental costs."
SPARC ENTERPRISE T5140 and T5240 SERVERS ENABLE CUSTOMERS TO SCALE MORE WITH LESS
The SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers are the first dual-socket,
general purpose servers powered by the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor.
The SPARC Enterprise T5240 server beats all x86 systems on
enterprise-class applications including Java, ERP, mail and OLTP
databases, helping customers to deliver new services and enterprise
computing capabilities with higher performance at lower cost. The
servers feature up to 128 compute threads in compact one- or two-rack
units and two to four times more memory and internal disk capacity than
competitive x86 systems, helping customers to consolidate their
datacenter infrastructure into a smaller, more powerful, energy
efficient environment.
The SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers also offer the industry's
only flexible, open source, no-cost virtualization technologies with
Solaris Containers and Logical Domains (LDoms). By allowing up to 128
virtual servers per system, customers can deploy 5,120 isolated domains
per rack -- making the new systems well suited for server
virtualization and consolidation. On-chip, integrated PCI-E and
cryptographic acceleration coupled with the high reliability of the
server design and Solaris OS helps enable customers to securely and
safely run a highly utilized and efficient virtualized infrastructure
to support demanding Web scale and enterprise application environments.
More information on the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers is
available at: http://sun.com/t5140 and http://sun.com/t5240 and http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparcenterprise/
The extreme scalability of the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 systems
paves the way for the development of an entirely new class of
applications that maximize the performance of multi-core systems. Sun
and Fujitsu offer a range of developer tools including CoolTools and
Sun Studio 12 software. More information on CoolTools is available at: http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/overview/cooltools.jsp. More information on Sun Studio 12 software and other tools for multi-threaded application development is available at: http://developers.sun.com/devtools/index.html
The new SPARC Enterprise servers are fully supported by Sun and Fujitsu
service organizations to help customers build on the advantages of CMT
technology. Service offerings include consolidation/virtualization
consulting, eco optimization, Solaris 10 OS services, and hardware/OS
support. More information on Sun and Fujitsu services is available at: http://www.sun.com/service and http://www.fujitsu.com.
NEW SPARC ENTERPRISE SERVERS DELIVER RECORD PERFORMANCE
Since their introduction in 2005, the SPARC Enterprise CMT-based
systems have set more than 50 performance records. Today, the SPARC
Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers are setting the pace with
breakthrough performance and beating the competition in performance,
price/performance and power and space utilization on business-critical
and compute-intensive workloads spanning the entire enterprise - from
the edge to the heart of the datacenter.
- Lotus R6 iNotes - The dual-socket SPARC Enterprise
T5240 server running the Solaris 10 OS excels on the Lotus iNotes email
benchmark with 65,000 users -- the highest ever number of supported
users. The SPARC Enterprise T5240 server also delivers better
price/performance than competitive systems -- nearly 5x better
price/performance than the HP BL480c equipped with Intel Xeon quad-core
processors.(1)
- SPECjAppServer2004 - Demonstrating its ability to
perform business critical operations by supporting thousands of
concurrent users accessing Web Services applications, the new
UltraSPARC T2 Plus-based server set the single application node world
record and beat an IBM Power6-based system delivering up to 3x more
performance in 1/2 the space. It also surpasses the Dell Xeon-based
system delivering up to 5x more performance and 2.5x better performance
per watt in 1/2 the space.(2)
- SPECjbb2005 - Pairing the most stable Java
implementation on the market with the industry's most efficient
multi-socket CMT platform propels the dual processor SPARC Enterprise
T5240 server to the top spot in its category in this Java-based B2B
Enterprise benchmark. The SPARC Enterprise T5240 server also
outperforms all four-socket x86 systems from HP, as well as beats the
AMD Opteron-based Dell PowerEdge 6950 server by over 2x in half the
space, while delivering 3x better performance per watt.(3)
- SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark
- Demonstrating its ability to handle critical tasks performed in
real-world ERP business environments, the SPARC Enterprise T5120 server
with a single UltraSPARC T2 processor (8 cores, 64 threads) and the
SPARC Enterprise T5240 server with two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors
(16 cores, 128 threads) now hold world records for all single and dual
processor systems on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD)
Standard Application Benchmark. The SPARC Enterprise T5240 server
supported 4,170 SAP SD Benchmark users - a result more than double the
2,035 SAP SD Benchmark users achieved by the IBM p570 system with two
POWER6 processors.(4)
- SPECweb2005 - At the edge of the datacenter where
Web services play a critical role, the UltraSPARC T2-based SPARC
Enterprise T5220 server is #1 -- beating all other results on this
industry standard Web server performance benchmark.(5)
For additional details and a complete list of all CMT benchmarks, please visit http://www.sun.com/coolthreads/benchmarks and http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparcenterprise/
SOLARIS 8 AND 9 CONTAINERS FOR THE SOLARIS 10 OS
Also announced today are new offerings providing virtualization
services to run Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 applications and help enable
the simple transfer of applications to the latest CMT systems running
the Solaris 10 OS. With these new products, Solaris 8 and 9 Containers for the Solaris 10 OS,
multiple Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 environments, or a combination of the
two, can be hosted on a single SPARC-based system. As a result,
customers can streamline IT operations, maximize datacenter space, and
save on power, cooling and support costs. The move to the latest
hardware is now de-coupled from the need to move directly to the
Solaris 10 OS, allowing customers to take advantage today of the
performance, scale and cost savings of new SPARC Enterprise CMT-based
servers.
Both Fujitsu-branded and Sun-branded SPARC Enterprise T5140 and
T5240 servers will be marketed worldwide. All other features are
identical.
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