Scale more with less. Using 3rd generation CoolThreads technology, you can start today with the highest compute density server ever: 128 compute threads in only one rack unit (1RU)! The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server delivers world-record throughput, as well as groundbreaking energy and space efficiency for web scale, enterprise and HPC applications - all at low cost without the throughput, power, and space tradeoffs.
At A Glance
World's first dual-socket, general-purpose server powered by the 3rd generation UltraSPARC T2 Plus "System on a Chip" processor
Up to 128 compute threads per server and 5,120 threads per rack – 32x higher compute density than comparable x86 systems
Integrated, flexible, open source, no-cost virtualization technology
Integrated on-chip cryptographic acceleration and on-board 10-gigabit Ethernet for secure computing and high-speed networking
The industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies and open standards
OpenSolaris is an evolutionary open source project based on the Solaris source code opened by Sun in 2005. See again what Sun thought leaders had to say about the open sourcing of the Solaris source code in 2005.
"We have since extended that work to the UltraSPARC T2 Plus server based Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 servers, taking advantage of the multi-socket architecture to scale performance and throughput. We have seen great results scaling from 64 threads in the UltraSPARC T2 servers to 128 threads in the UltraSPARC T2 Plus servers for our plasma physics and PDE codes, and from our sparse iterative kernel. In addition, this scaling came at no cost to productivity. In fact, we were able to scale without even recompiling the code. For our applications, CMT technology is by far the most productive solution to achieving high performance." - Samuel Webb Williams, PhD candidate, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
Source: J.D. Power and Associates, October 2007. J.D. Power and Associates Certified Technology Service and Support Program, developed in conjunction with SSPA. For more information, visit www.jdpower.com or thesspa.com
Upgrade to Solaris 10 OS
Solaris 8 and 9 applications will run un-changed on Solaris 10.
