Scale more with less with Sun's 3rd generation CoolThreads design: 16 cores, 128 compute threads, 16 disk drives, and 128 GB of memory in a 2RU space. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server is the fastest 2-socket server available, with up to 5 times the performance in half the space and 2.5 times better performance per watt than comparable x86 systems.
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 2,500 threads per rack – 8x higher compute density than comparable x86 systems
Up to 5x higher performance, 2.5x higher performance per watt, and 2-4x higher memory and internal storage expandability – all in half the space 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 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server equipped with two 1.4GHz
UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors and running the Oracle Application Server
10g under Solaris 10 Operating System obtained a new World Record score
of 3,331.31 JOPS@Standard (Java Operations per Second) for all single
Application servers on the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. [1]
"Our throughput went from 3GB of data per hour on a traditional server environment to approximately 50GB of data per hour on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server - a massive 17x scaling increase, with no tweaking, code changes, or other optimizations required. In other words, the machine scaled our performance as a function of the number of promised threads, with no "gotchas". The performance delivered by the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server was equivalent to that of other HPC systems designed with dozens of cores - Sun said we'd get 128 threads of performance, and they delivered.
We found the computing capacity we need in a single box with a tiny space and power footprint. This is critical for our application and any many others like it in the world of Web 2.0. In short, our experience with Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has been simply amazing! This server is a without a doubt a cluster-killer, and enables us to provide faster response times for our customers, at lower cost and complexity than either traditional servers or niche HPC products." - Jason Bond Pratt, CIO, IT.com, Inc
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[1] SPEC, SPECjAppServer are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. All results from www.spec.org as of 4/8/08. SPECjAppServer2004: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (16 cores, 2 chip) 3,331 JOPS@Standard. IBM p 570 (4 cores, 2 chips) 1,197.51 JOPS@Standard. Dell 2900 (4 cores, 2 chips) 652.93 JOPS@Standard. HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) 874.17 JOPS@Standard.
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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
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