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CMT Servers with New 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2/T2 Plus Processors
Set World Records on Enterprise Benchmarks; Enhanced Logical Domains
Software Leverages the Solaris Operating System to Help Increase
Datacenter Efficiency
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Tokyo, July 21, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: JAVA) and Fujitsu (TSE:6702) today enhanced the performance
and virtualization capabilities of their chip multi-threaded (CMT)
SPARC Enterprise server lines with the addition of 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC
T2 and T2 Plus processors and a new release of Logical Domains (LDoms)
virtualization software, leveraging the latest release of the Solaris
Operating System (OS).
"Our CMT servers with Solaris make it easy for customers to economize
in the datacenter without sacrificing performance or efficiency," said
John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems.
"We've got massive density with virtualization already built-in - it's
a great choice for both consolidation and the heavy lifting required by
enterprise applications."
"Adoption of our CMT servers spans from start-ups to the large
enterprise and we continue to see huge interest from customers looking
to maximize the return on their infrastructure investments," said
Noriyuki Toyoki, corporate vice president of Fujitsu. "With the
enhancements we're announcing today, we will be able to offer customers
even greater performance and virtualization capabilities."
CMT servers and the Solaris OS deliver increased performance,
scalability and reliability with built-in virtualization capabilities
at no additional cost. Combining new 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus
processors with new LDoms 1.2 software provides additional
virtualization and compute performance, simplifying management,
reducing I/O bottlenecks and accelerating application response time.
LDoms 1.2 software, combined with the latest Solaris OS release, delivers breakthrough new features including:
- Built-in Configuration Tools - Provides simple and
streamlined setup of Logical Domains with built-in command line
configuration tools that enable customers to quickly begin using LDoms.
- CPU Power Management - Reduces system footprint through unique CPU power management, automatically powering off cores not in use.
- Jumbo Frames - Enhances network performance and
efficiencies across network infrastructures with the support of jumbo
frames, allowing customers to send more data at one time and reducing
processing load requirements.
- Domain Mobility - Enables the dynamic migration of
domains to accommodate increased resource demands, maintenance
requirements, or to reduce energy consumption during low utilization
periods via a single migration command.
- Built-in Recovery - Automatically backs up LDom configurations on disk in case of system corruption.
- Physical-to-Virtual Migration Tool - Allows
customers to adopt LDoms infrastructures quickly when moving from
existing legacy SPARC/Solaris systems to CMT systems.
SPARC Enterprise Servers With 1.6 GHz Processors And Solaris Deliver Outstanding Performance
To date, SPARC Enterprise servers have posted more than 60
industry-leading performance results. New records with the 1.6 GHz
processors and the Solaris OS announced today include:
Two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark
The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server (4 processors/32 cores/256 threads)
set a four-processor world record on the two-tier SAP Sales and
Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark with 4,720 SAP SD
Benchmark users for all systems running the SAP enhancement package 4
for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode). The SAP SD Standard
Application Benchmark represents the critical tasks performed in
real-world ERP business environments and demonstrates the performance
of competitive systems running order- and invoice-processing workloads.
Running the SAP solution with Oracle Database, the SPARC Enterprise
T5440 server surpassed the competing IBM System 550 server with four
POWER6 processors by 26 percent with 3,752 SAP SD Benchmark users(1).
This result also highlights the optimal performance of SAP ERP on the
Solaris OS and the seamless multilingual support available for SPARC
Enterprise systems running SAP applications.
SPECjAppServer2004
The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, running seven instances of Oracle
WebLogic Server using Solaris Containers technology, outperformed all
other competitive solutions with a single-node on the
SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark with 7,661.16 SPECjAppServer2004
JOPS@Standard. This benchmark captures the end-to-end application and
database performance of a vendor's solutions and highlights the
scalability of the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server in both application
and database server roles. Running the latest versions of the Solaris
10 OS and Java Server software backed by Oracle Database 11g, the SPARC
Enterprise T5440 server delivered 74 percent better performance than
the Intel Xeon-based HP DL580 G5 solution and delivered a 21 percent
improvement over the previous 1.4GHz-based SPARC Enterprise score(2).
For more information on SPARC Enterprise benchmarks, visit: http://www.sun.com/benchmarks and http://www.fujitsu.com/sparcenterprise/.
Availability
SPARC Enterprise servers with 1.6 GHz processors are available immediately with pricing starting at $33,339 USD (US list).
Both Fujitsu-branded and Sun-branded SPARC Enterprise servers will be marketed worldwide. All features are identical.
For more information, visit www.sun.com or www.fujitsu.com
Read the original article: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-07/sunflash.20090721.2.xml
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