At a Glance
- Optimized for 24x7 mission critical computing and large shared memory applications
- Mix and match up to sixteen quad-core SPARC64 VII processors and/or dual-core SPARC64 VI processors in the same system
- Integrated, flexible virtualization technology
- SPARC64 VII quad-core processor provides an almost 2X performance improvement on HPC or floating point intensive workloads and up to 80% more performance on Commercial applications
- Mainframe RAS capabilities
- Up to 112 PCIe or PCI-X slots with the external I/O expansion unit
- Ideal consolidation platform with up to 16 dynamic domains and thousands of Solaris Containers per system
- Protect your systems at the point of sale with extended and upgraded warranty coverage from day 1 with SunSpectrum Support Services
- 100% binary compatibility with SPARC Enterprise processors
- Installation services that help you fully utilize the industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies
Key Applications
- OLTP and BIDW databases
- ERP, SCM, CRM deployments
- High floating point applications
- Compute-intensive scientific/engineering application serving
- Applications requiring large shared memory spaces
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server Powered by the New 2.52 GHz SPARC64 VII Processor Tops IBM Power 570 System on Java Business Benchmark
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server powered by the quad-core 2.52GHz SPARC64 VII processors and running Sun Studio 12 on the top of Solaris 10 OS, delivered two floating-point World Record results on industry-standard SPECfp2006 benchmark for both Optimized and Base tests. [1]
Customer Endorsements
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[1] SPEC, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 07/10/08 and this announcement. Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server(SPARC64 VII 2.5GHz) 28.8 SPECfp2006, 25.8 SPECfp_base2006. IBM Power 595 (POWER6 5.0GHz) 24.9 SPECfp2006, 20.1 SPECfp_base2006.
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The Sun/Fujitsu Alliance
Sun and Fujitsu continuing to build on our 20-year collaborative relationship and our commitment to the SPARC roadmap designed to re-shape the Enterprise computing market.
NetTalk
Breaking World Records and Improving Performance
Learn how the newly enhanced SPARC Enterprise M-series servers are breaking world records, improving performance, and offer the ability to future proof data centers with the easiest upgrades in the market.
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Ideal for Consolidation & Virtualization
New Sun SPARC Enterprise systems are the ideal choice for consolidating and virtualizing web tier environments, smaller databases and large-scale enterprise applications alike. Designed with unique built in mainframe-class virtualization capabilities, the Sun SPARC Enterprise systems allow you to run thousands of partitions across your datacenter, for complete isolation and control, and not pay a penny extra. HP and IBM systems can’t offer this level of partitioning.
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