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Sun Fire E25K Server

Overview

No Longer Orderable. It is superceded by the next generation Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server.

At a Glance

New UltraSPARC IV+: Over 5x faster than the UltraSPARC III servers and over double that of UltraSPARC IV servers in the same footprint
Hot swap and mix and match UltraSPARC IV+, IV, and III processors in the same system
Scales up to 72 processors with 144 threads and over 1TB memory for heavily threaded commercial applications
Over 40% faster I/O performance
Solaris OS, with its application compatibility guarantee, delivers seamless processor migration
Provision up to 18 Uniboards - the same boards used on Sun Fire E4900-E25K servers - on the fly
The Sun Fire Capacity on Demand program offers "pay as you grow" computing options
Industry-leading virtualization, plus fault isolated Dynamic System Domains, Solaris Containers, and Predictive Self-Healing deliver a scalable consolidation platform
Protect your systems at the point of sale with extended and upgraded warranty coverage from day 1 with SunSpectrum Support Services
Installation services that help you fully utilize the industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies and open standards

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Key Applications

IT infrastructure
Application serving
Compute-intensive scientific engineering

4/9/07, TPC-H Data Warehousing World Record

The Sun Fire E25K server has achieved new world-record results on the TPC-H data warehousing benchmark at the 3 Terabyte scale factor for both overall performance and single-system price/performance. The TPC-H benchmark was run on a 72-way 1.8 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processor- based Sun Fire E25K with Sun StorageTek 6140 arrays, running Solaris 10 and Oracle Database 10g with Automatic Storage Management. The benchmark measures high-load multiple query throughput as well as single query performance.

The Sun Fire E25K server outperformed the best competitor non-cluster system, the IBM p5-595 by 14% and had the best price/performance of the top six performing systems. [1]

[1] Sun Fire E25K 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB, $36.68/QphH@3000GB, avail 04/09/07, HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p cluster 64p DC 110,576.5 QohH@3000GB, $37.80/QphH@3000GB avail 06/08/06, Sun Fire E25K 105430.9 QphH@3000GB, $54.87/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/23/06, IBM eServer p5 595 100,512.3 QphH@3000GB, $53.32/QphH@3000GB, avail 03/01/06, HP Integrity Superdome 71,847.8 QphH@3000GB, $55.79/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/18/06, Sun Fire E25K 59,435.7 QphH@3000GB, $100.66/QphH@3000GB, avail 07/27/05, TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.

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Sun Upgrade Advantage Program

Trade Up to UltraSPARC IV+ and Save: The Sun Upgrade Advantage Program (UAP) offers comprehensive trade-in programs for qualified Sun and competitive system upgrades to UltraSPARC IV+ servers with upfront trade-in discounts of up to 20%.

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Ideal for Consolidation & Virtualization

The Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ systems are an ideal choice for consolidating and virtualizing web tier environments, smaller databases and large-scale enterprise applications alike. The highly reliable, scalable software partitioning features of Solaris 10 containers increase utilization and efficiency for your data center and the binary compatibility and Solaris Application Guarantee make it a reality.

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