Increase performance per watt by up to 34% from quad-core AMD Opteron processors with the new six-core processors in the Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 servers.

"Combine this with AMD-V with rapid virtualization indexing, Solaris 10, Linux or Windows operating systems, Sun's xVM Ops Center, VMware, Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Microsoft Hyper-V -- allows users to run several application on a single server, increase system utilization, improve performance and have a more flexible IT environment," the company states.

Sun Fire X4140 and X4240 Support

• Six-Core AMD Opteron Model 2427 (2.2 GHz, 6M L3, 75W) processors
• Six-Core AMD Opteron Model 2431 (2.4 GHz, 6M L3, 75W) processors
• Six-Core AMD Opteron Model 2435 (2.6 GHz, 6M L3, 75W) processors

Sun Fire X4440 Support

• Six-Core AMD Opteron Model 8431 (2.4 GHz, 6M L3, 75W) processors
• Six-Core AMD Opteron Model 8435 (2.6 GHz, 6M L3, 75W) processors

New Features of Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors Boosting Performance

• Six Cores: Get integration of six cores within the same processor, with each core having its own L1 and L2 caches, and a shared L3 cache; this provides better performance and power efficiency when running multi-threaded applications

• HyperTransport Technology Assist (HT Assist): Improves the performance of the cache sensitive applications such as virtualization, database and HPC by reducing cache probe traffic between processors; HT Assist helps to increase coherent memory bandwidth and reduce latency in multi-node systems by reducing cache probe traffic between cores

• Coherent HyperTransport 3.0 Technology (cHT3): Helps improve the overall system balance and provides better scalability by increasing the interconnect rate from 2 GT/s to a maximum of 4.8 GT/s between processors.

These AMD Opteron processors also feature AMD CoolCore Technology that helps reduce power and cooling costs of the Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 servers by lowering power consumption, and the processors boast AMD-P, which enables users to manage the power consumption and energy efficiency of the servers.

"The Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 servers are the best enterprise class 2-socket and 4-socket x64 Opteron servers in terms of performance, density and power efficiency," the company states. "They are ideal for a broad range of applications running Solaris, Linux, Windows or VMware."

Systems that shipped originally with dual-core or quad-core AMD Opteron processors are not upgradable to six-core AMD Opteron Processors.

New Options for the Sun Fire X2270

In addition to the introduction of the six-core AMD Opterons in the Sun Fire servers, Sun also is announcing the option of:

• 8GB Memory Kit (1 x 8GB) Dual Rank DDR2-667 Registered ECC DIMMs for the Sun Fire X2270 server, which will enable up to 96GB of memory and support memory-intensive applications such as virtualization and computation intensive applications

• OpenSolaris 2009.06 Assemble-to-Order (ATO) pre-install option for the server

Note, DIMMs of different sizes and speeds cannot be mixed in the Sun Fire X2270. All memory in this server must be of the same size and speed.

More Information

Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor

Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor FAQs

Sun Fire X4140

Sun Fire X4240

Sun Fire X4440

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