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Competitive Advantages
- Industry-leading throughput; Sun Fireplane[TM] interconnect; 9.6GB/sec. sustained bandwidth
- First embedded memory controller
- Only RISC systems to offer mixed-speed CPU support
- Only binary-compatible family of systems scaling from 1-64 processors; $995 to $1M+
Unique Advantages for this Class
- Full hardware redundancy
- Fault-isolated Dynamic System Domains
- Hot kernel patching
- Most comprehensive concurrent maintenance capability, including Hot CPU upgrades
Performance Leadership
Real-world applications, benchmarks:
- World record: Oracle Applications - beats numbers from IBM and Compaq
- World record: PeopleSoft - nearly 2-½ times faster than nearest competitor
- World record: SPECjbb - beat IBM
- iPlanet - More functionality than Microsoft.net and IBM Websphere; demonstrated near linear scalability- 7.5x on 8 CPUs
For more information:
lisa.ganier@sun.com (650) 786-8088
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