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Chip Multi-threading (CMT) brings the concept of multi-threading to hardware. With CMT, many threads can execute simultaneously within a single processor — increasing a processor's efficiency while minimizing latency.
Sun pioneered CMT technology back in December 2005 with the release of the highly successful UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) chip, featured in the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, also known as CoolThreads servers because of their low power and cooling requirements. Since their introduction in 2005, Sun CMT systems are powering the Web infrastructure of Web 2.0 companies as well as large enterprises.
On 13 October 2008, Sun redefined mid-range computing by combining the traditional scalability and reliability of mid-range systems with the breakthrough performance, eco efficiency and cost effectiveness of Sun's proven open-source CMT architecture with the introduction of the Sun SPARC T5440 server.
In addition to the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, the SPARC Enterprise server family was recently extended with the introduction of the entry-level SPARC Enterprise M3000 server, powered by a single quad-core SPARC64 VII processor and the Solaris 10 Operating System.
The SPARC Enterprise M3000 server delivers key features including hardware-level instruction retry and dynamic cache-memory degradation, providing the benefits of mainframe-like reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) capabilities at an entry-level price. The SPARC Enterprise M3000 is the latest addition to the SPARC Enterprise line of servers co-developed and marketed by Fujitsu and Sun.
With the introduction of the SPARC Enterprise M3000 and the Sun SPARC T5440 servers, Sun now has a robust and full product line of systems that can support the smallest Web infrastructure environments all the way to enterprise application and database environments.
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Lionel
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