At a Glance
- Unmatched investment protection with no forklift upgrades - upgrade individual components, not the whole system
- 100% SPARC/Solaris binary compatibility
- 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
- Built-in, flexible virtualization technology
- Mainframe RAS capabilities
- Ideal consolidation platform with up to 16 dynamic domains and thousands of Solaris Containers per system
- The high density SPARC64 VII quad-core processor provides an almost 2X performance improvement over the SPARC64 VI dual core option and therefore is ideal on HPC or floating point intensive workloads and performance intensive Commercial applications
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]
Power Calculator
Configure your Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server to see just how low your power consumption can go. Note: Fujitsu, one of our business partners, designs and maintains the M-series power calculators.
Customer and ISV Endorsements
[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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Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series systems deliver unmatched investment protection, industry-leading RAS, built-in/no cost virtualization, and world record performance.
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