The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server is a 4-socket system, based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus architecture, in a compact 4U package with up to 256-threads (32 cores)and 512 GB of memory.

"Sun is dramatically changing IT economics and delivering enormous value to the midrange market that could not come at a more critical time," said John Fowler, EVP, Systems Group, Sun . "The Solaris-based SPARC Enterprise T5440 server offers incredible performance on a completely different curve in a footprint that's half the size of the competition. For customers, it all comes down to faster, smaller, greener, better. And with the built-in virtualization of Solaris, they can save even more."
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Ever alert to the benchmarking results achieved by Sun solutions, BM Seer has posted links in his blog to the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 world record Siebel performance. He notes that Oracle typically didn't allow vendors to do public comparisons; then points out that anyone can do the math with the data from Oracle's website and draw the appropriate conclusions.
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