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Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server

Introducing the world's first server designed to meet the demands of web scale performance: Securely serve millions of new users and cut your power consumption by 2x and space by 4x. That's the kind of web scale capability and savings you can expect from the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server. It's also the industry's most open platform with up to eight cores and 64 threads per processor, all in a compact 1RU footprint that can enable you to overcome the capacity constraints of your current datacenter.


At A Glance

  • Designed for secure web scale and virtualized computing, and data-intensive applications
  • World's first 64-thread, general purpose server powered by the ground-breaking UltraSPARC T2 "System on a Chip" processor
  • Record-breaking performance, maximum energy and space efficiency, delivering the industry's best performance per watt
  • World's first server with integrated open source, no cost virtualization technology, enabling over 2,500 isolated domains per rack
  • Integrated on-chip cryptographic acceleration and 10 Gigabit Ethernet enables secure computing at wire speed
  • The industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies and open standards
  • Industry standard systems management and no-cost development and deployment tools to speed time to service
  • Extreme levels of reliability through integrated and simplified design resulting in fewest parts in class
  • Ubuntu Linux distribution certified for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server, providing choice of best open source operating systems available: Solaris and Ubuntu Linux
  • Installation services that help you fully utilize the industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies and open standards

Key Applications

  • Web serving
  • Consolidation and virtualization
  • Streaming media
  • Security applications
  • Java Application Servers
  • Java Virtual Machines
  • Network infrastructures
  • SOA and business integration platforms
  • Compute and network node
  • Multi-Threaded floating point applications

World Record Performance

Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers with CoolThreads technology deliver breakthrough levels of throughput with dramatic power and space savings, as demonstrated by a range of World Record benchmark results. These world record results span commercial and technical workloads common across all IT infrastructures. When the Space, Watts and Performance (SWaP) metric is applied, it is easy to see why these servers are the most efficient in the market, uniquely enabling customers to consolidate space and energy consumption, without sacrificing performance.


Gold Medal Award Winner

SearchDataCenter.com selects the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers as the 2007 Gold Medal winner for the server category.


Incredible Savings - 46% Lower Total Cost of Acquisition

Get 46% lower Total Cost of Acquisition with the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server compare to a competitive 2-socket x86 server.


Auto-discoverable

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server is the first system from Sun to be auto-discoverable. Once you've discovered the hardware and OS instances in your environment, register it with Sun to use the lightweight inventory management tool and help Sun improve its support services to you.


Power Calculator

Configure your Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server to see just how low your power consumption can go.


Ideal for Small & Medium Businesses

  • Affordable prices, extreme energy efficiency, and low TCO
  • Advanced performance and reliability
  • Designed for growth and scalability
Customize it, price it, and buy it via Sun's site for small and medium businesses.


SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 results submitted to SPEC. Other results as of 09/28/07 on www.spec.org Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1 chip, 8 cores) 192,055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24,007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. IBM p570 (2 chips, 4 cores) SPECjbb2005 bops = 175474, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 87737. IBM p505Q (1 chip, 4 cores) SPECjbb2005 bops = 63544, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 31772. HP rx2660 (2 chips, 4 cores) SPECjbb2005 bops = 80884, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 80884

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Fujitsu and Sun Partnership

Fujitsu Senior VP, Tatsuo Tomita, discusses the UltraSPARC T2 based SPARC Enterprise servers that launched in an ongoing partnership between Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems. Learn more about the benefits to customers with the newly introduced T5120 and T5220 UltraSPARC T2 based servers.

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Design Overview

Listen to the product experts discuss the technical aspects that make the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server so unique.



What's New - Solaris 8 Containers and Solaris 9 Containers Software

The Solaris 8 Containers or Solaris 9 Containers software and services accelerate the migration of application environments currently using Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 to new systems running Solaris 10. These new tools allow you to capture the entire environment of the Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 source system and then transfer this environment to the target Solaris 10 system without application modification or emulation. Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Containers software is available as free download.


Customer/Partner Endorsements

"Our testing showed significant scaling and throughput improvement for database applications running with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database on Sun Microsystems' new SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 rackmount servers. These new systems, featuring the new powerful 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 processor, are ideal for deployment of concurrent multi-threaded applications using Oracle TimesTen." - Susan Cheung, Director TimesTen Product Management, Oracle Corporation

"The combination of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software with the new CoolThread servers allows for delivery capabilities of 180 analyzed emails per second, providing leading real-time defense against spam and malware." - Matt Hartwell-Herrero, group product manager, Symantec Messaging Security


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Sun Optimized AMP Stack: Sun offers a new recipe for success - the Solaris OS + AMP (Solaris 10 OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). For customers committed to the open AMP stack, this "recipe" provides the same Web applications they know and use, but on a more secure open-source platform with greater scalability. Sun provides complete step-by-step instructions to get up and running more quickly when building and deploying Web applications. Sun offers five easy steps to quickly develop Web applications.

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