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SPARC T5 servers powered by the world's fastest microprocessors

06.04.2013

Oracle has announced the release of new models of SPARC servers. Recall that the name SPARC is formed from the first letters of the phrase Scalable Processor ARChitecture - a scalable processor architecture and reflects the use of the RISC microprocessor architecture developed in 1985 by Sun Microsystems. As you know, Oracle bought Sun in 2009.

The new SPARC T5 and M5 series servers are running Oracle Solaris. They are mid-to-high performance and are designed for database-intensive enterprise applications as well as mission-critical business applications.

The basis of the SPARC T5 servers was the processor of the same name, which Oracle calls the world's fastest microprocessor. The microprocessor with 16 cores operates at a frequency of 3,6 GHz, simultaneously executing up to 128 instruction streams. The processor configuration includes 8 MB shared L128 cache and XNUMX KB LXNUMX cache per core.

According to Oracle, SPARC T5 servers hold 17 world performance records. Thus, Oracle SPARC T5-8 is the fastest single server for Oracle Database and the fastest single server for Oracle Middleware. In terms of price and performance, it is 12 times superior to the IBM Power 780 server.
In addition to the SPARC T5-8, the list of new products includes the SPARC T5-1B server module, the SPARC T5-2, SPARC T5-4 and SPARC M5-32 servers (it uses six-core T5 processors).

The manufacturer notes the high degree of scalability of servers, which in the maximum configuration can have from 1 to 32 processor sockets, providing access to a colossal resource of performance within a single operating system, a common set of administration and virtualization tools, which makes them "ideal platforms for building clouds."

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