Sun announced new quad-core SPARC64 VII CPUs for its Enterprise servers — M4000, M5000, M8000 M4000 and M9000. With the new CPUs the Sun SPARC Enterprise Server M9000 and Sun Studio delivers more that 2 TFlops.

On the SAP Standard Application Sales and Distribution benchmark which represents tasks performed in real-world ERP environments, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server with 64 processors 256 cores, and 512 threads, supports 39,100 users, which beats the IBM Power 595 (35,400 SD users) by more than 10 percent, and the HP Integrity SD64B (30,000 SD users) by over 30 percent.

The new CPUs extend the server family from 16 cores to 256 cores with 32 to 512 DIMM slots:

• M4000 - 4 CPUs, 16 cores, 32 DIMMs
• M5000 - 8 CPUs, 32 cores, 64 DIMMs
• M8000 - 16 CPUs, 64 cores, 128 DIMMs
• M9000-32 - 32 CPUs, 128 cores, 256 DIMMs
• M9000-64 - 64 CPUs, 256 cores, 512 DIMMs

With 4 GB DIMMs, the supported memory ranges from 128 GB for the M4000 to 2 Tb for the M9000.

“The new SPARC Enterprise systems up the ante on performance and deliver the flexibility to address the most demanding enterprise workloads,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. “Today, we’re freeing customers from the constraints of the mainframe with open systems that deliver the scalability, consolidation and virtualization they want, along with long-term investment protection features that can future-proof their datacenters.”

“The SPARC Enterprise servers advanced to a new stage with the SPARC64 VII processor, which provides spectacular performance, reliability and eco-efficiency and benefits from Fujitsu’s unparalleled mainframe heritage,” said Tatsuo Tomita, corporate senior executive vice president and a board member at Fujitsu. “We are confident that the SPARC64 VII processor which powers the world’s most scalable and flexible systems, not only protects but also increases the value of our customer’s investments.”

These new CPUs use 44 percent less energy per core than the SPARC64 VI chip.

SAP Benchmark

• The SPARC Enterprise M9000 server running Solaris 10 OS, the SAP ERP application Release 6.0 and Oracle Database 10g achieved a world record result on the SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark by achieving 39,100 SD Benchmark users.

• The SPARC Enterprise M9000 server result beats the IBM Power 595 POWER6 server with 35,400 SD Benchmark users by 10.5% and outperforms the HP Integrity Superdome SD64B with 30,000 SD Benchmark users by 30.3%, as well as demonstrates the ability to run both the application and database software in the highly scalable and reliable way. [for details see the Sun press release]

HPC Benchmark

• The SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, based on SPARC64 VII processors, and using Sun Studio 12 software with Solaris 10 OS delivers a score of 2.023 TFLOPS on the Linpack’s Highly Parallel Computing benchmark. The SPARC Enterprise M9000 outperforms the IBM Power 595 POWER6 by nearly 2X and beats the HP Integrity Superdome system by 2.7X. [for details see sun press release]

More Information

Press release from Sun

SPARC Enterprise Servers

John Fowler video on launch of SPARC64 with Fujitsu

Launch page with video, blogs, white papers etc. [...read more...]

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