Best Of Breedsun Microsystems T4 Computing Platform
David E Kelly recently wrote In 2010 Oracle committed to delivering new SPARC chips and server hardware every 12 to 18 months
. Over a five-year period, this SPARC roadmap called for improvement of 4 times the cores, 32 times the threads, 16 times the memory capacity, 40 times the database transactions, and 10 times the Java operations per second. So far, on the ground results exceeded those commitments.
Instead of what was promised the SPARC and Oracle Solaris roadmap, Oracle is delivering more. The driving time to major SPARC milestones has gotten shorter, and with the recent release of the SPARC T4 chip, Oracle is providing better-than-promised performance.
Scott Myers of Sun/Oracle said So far, our T4-based test system, a SPARC T4-2 server, is outperforming our (SPARC Enterprise) M5000 nicely. Were pretty impressed with it. Another advantage that Myers sees in the SPARC T4 chip is its improved single-thread performance capabilities.
Our T3 based-based systems, worked great for Web servers, but the T4 chip has improved single-thread performance so were running databases on the T4-based systems, and theyre performing every bit as well, if not better, than our current M5000 systems, says Myers.
Eventually, Myers sees T4-based systems taking over the solutions running on the companys
SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers. its a more energy-efficient chip, and it can handle more processes says Myers. Its a revolutionary design with on-chip cryptographic acceleration and built-in 10 gigabit Ethernet, which improves performance, throughput, and I/O
The company is also looking forward to Oracle Solaris 11, with all its new features. Theres so much good stuff baked into Oracle Solaris 11, says Myers. Were really excited about moving to it.
One thing that weve really appreciated about SPARC and Oracle Solaris is that over the course of all the upgrades and server switchovers, weve done since 1998, weve only needed about an hour of planned downtime for each upgrade, says Myers. Weve never had an issue with the application binary compatibility, thanks to the Oracle Solaris Guarantee Program. Weve never had a single issue migrating from Solaris 2.6 through Oracle Solaris 10 with different SPARC chipsets. Everything has just gone flawlessly.
For Asset Conversion Services this information validated our approach to continue to support the M5000 servers with the 64GB memory kit (SELX2D1Z (8 x 8GB DIMMs 371-4476) and the Memory Board option 541-0545. Being one of the only sources for this memory has allowed us to be more-proactive in our approach to supporting Sun/Oracle Harshbarger said. We think it can only help Sun/Oracle to have a silent partner.have their backs. There is bound to be some blind spots for any operation and Oracle is no exception, it protects them as well as us to fill in the blank spots.
Asset Conversion Services move into the new T4 server line is one that the company was committed to as soon as Oracle made the new platform announcement. ACS has started with supplying T4 memory for its customers following with T4-2 and T4-4 server offerings.
For further information call 408-288-7300 or simply email Steve Harshbarger at steve@assetcs.com
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