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Articles for the keywords: SPARC64
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22 Apr 2013
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Fujitsu M10 Servers Now Available Worldwide [30519]
Build on SPARC 64X Processor
Fujitsu and Oracle have announced the worldwide availability of Fujitsu M10 servers, based on the 16-core SPARC64 X processor. Fujitsu M10 servers deliver mainframe class reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) and scale dynamically from 1 to 64 processors in a modular architecture with core-level CPU Activation that allows customers to easily add resources in Building Blocks to meet changing workload requirements without downtime for existing applications. Featuring breakthrough technology, including Software on Chip and Liquid Loop Cooling, Fujitsu M10 servers provide highly flexible system configurations with physical partitioning and built-in, no-cost virtualization technologies via Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris Zones.
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02 Nov 2012
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Oracle Plays SPARC Cards Close to the Vest [28300]
Fujitsu Deals from a Deck of Its Own
Fresh from Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Timothy Prickett Morgan tries to unscramble what has been made available for public consumption concerning Oracle's and Fujitsu's plans for processor production. Once partners (of sorts) Oracle and Fujitsu are seen by Prickett Morgan as proceeding down separate paths with Fujitsu banking on its 16-core Athena Sparc64-X processor and Oracle publishing a T-series and and M-series processor roadmap. The writer concludes that both Oracle and Fujitsu may be ramping up for a competitive fight with IBM over a larger share of the Unix server market. And competition in that arena, Prickett Morgan remarks, would be a welcome thing.
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07 Sep 2011
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Core Factor for T4 published [24554]
Suggestion Is that T4 Will Perform as Promised
Oracle has published an update to the Processor Core Factor Table, according to a blog post by Stefan Hinker. This update lists the still unreleased T4 CPU with a factor of 0.5, which leaves the license cost per socket the same compared to T3 while putting T4 in the same league as SPARC64 VII+ and all current x86 CPUs. A later announcement is expected that will provide performance details, although this core factor seems to confirm that T4 will deliver on Oracle's performance claims.
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05 Sep 2011
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New World Record for Oracle Database 11g on SAP Assemble-to-Order (ATO) Standard Application Benchmark [24502]
SPARC Enterprise M9000 Beats All Previously Posted Records
Oracle announced that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracles SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server with 64 SPARC64 VII+ 3.0 GHz quad-core processors has set a new world record on the SAP Assemble-to-Order (ATO) standard application benchmark, delivering a record result of 206,360 fully business processed assembly orders per hour. In running this benchmark both the application tier and the database tier were deployed on a single SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, demonstrating its capabilities for workload consolidation.
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14 Jun 2011
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SPARC Enterprise M5000 Delivers First PeopleSoft Payroll 9.1 Benchmark [24262]
Faster than $6m IBM z10 Mainframe with Nine 4.4 GHz Gen1 Processors
Oracle reports that its SPARC Enterprise M5000 server configured with eight 2.66 GHz SPARC64 VII+ processors together with Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array storage achieved world record performance on the Unicode version of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll (N.A) 9.1 with extra large volume model benchmark using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracle Solaris 10. In setting this record, the SPARC Enterprise M5000 server processed payroll payments for the 500K employees PeopleSoft Payroll 9.1 (Unicode) benchmark in 46.76 minutes compared to a previous result of 50.11 minutes for the PeopleSoft Payroll 9.0 (non-Unicode) benchmark configured with 2.53 GHz SPARC64 VII processors resulting in 7% better performance, according to the Oracle release. The SPARC Enterprise M5000 server completed the end-to-end run in 66.28 mins, 11% faster than earlier published result of 73.88 mins with Payroll 9.0 configured with 2.53 GHz SPARC64 VII processors.
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