19th September 2007

High performance and reliability with minimum power consumption

With growing concerns over global warming, many companies are looking for energy and space saving business platforms. Data centers are becoming more crowded. Growing power consumption and air conditioning costs are hampering budgets. Such overcrowding is also causing serious problems in operation and systems management.

Now, for customers with such concerns, the eco-friendly SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 provide a best-practice solution.

SPARC Enterprise support customers by reducing power bills, air conditioning costs and real estate needs. E.g. the 1U rack height T1000 has a max. power consumption of just 220W.

But cost saving is not the only SPARC Enterprise’s feature. SPARC Enterprise also provides the highest in performance. Proven through Web server and ERP server benchmarks, its high performance and low power operation offer the best throughput per Watt consumed in the business.

Business and operational continuity is also assured by high levels of component redundancy and by the data protection mechanisms included in the UltraSPARC T1 processor, memory and systems busses.

All of these features together make SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 the obvious choice in support of your sustainable, eco-friendly and cost effective business expansion. The growth in the take up of these servers in the market reflects that proposition.

According to statistics provided by IDC, in the 2nd quarter calendar 2007, revenue for UltraSPARC T1 based servers (*1) made up around 25% of the RISC processor-based server market (entry models). Compared with same period in calendar 2006.UltraSPARC T1 systems’ share has virtually doubled.

Operational cost reductions from energy efficient and space saving design

SPARC Enterprise’s energy efficient design reduces server operation costs. At the heart of the servers, UltraSPARC T1 processors demonstrate outstanding energy saving characteristics with max. 73 W power consumption.

Compared with a fully configured p5 510Q(2U), SPARC Enterprise T2000 (2U) cuts power consumption and heat generation by around 28%. SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 mean outstanding cost efficiency in UNIX class servers.

Configured for maximum compactness with max. 8 cores and 32 threads UltraSPARC T1 processor, SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 are optimal servers for businesses demanding high throughput, dense racking and energy savings.

High performance Web and application server with top class throughput

With the unique functionality of the UltraSPARC T1 processor, SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 have achieved record performance in Web and application services, as shown by SPECweb2005 & SAP SD 2-tier benchmarks.

In the SPECweb2005 benchmark, SPARC Enterprise T2000 tops Web server performance in its UNIX server class of 8 or less cores with 2.1 times greater performance than that of p5 550 (as at 8/31/2007).

In the two tier SAP Standard Sales Distribution (SD) benchmark, SPARC Enterprise T2000 achieved 1100 SAP SD benchmark users; giving it top position in the single CPU chip server class (Registered, 22nd Aug., 2007) – comparative performance with HP Integrity rx2660 and IBM p5 505Q.

Through these No.1 benchmark positions in single CPU application and Web server processing SPARC Enterprise has proven its excellence in front end server and high throughput processor technology. 　　　　

High business continuity sustained with solid RAS

SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 protect IT investment with high business continuity, enabled by data and component level protection mechanisms. Costs associated with problem resolution are also reduced by SPARC Enterprise’s reliable and redundant components and their effective error recovery mechanisms.

• UltraSPARC T1 Processor
  System continuity is assured with hardware-based Error Checking and Correction (ECC) in Level2 cache memory and registers, plus the parity mechanism in Level1 cache. Even with errors in Level1 cache, dynamic downgrading of cores keeps the system operating.
• Memory
  Memory access is secured through ECC and Extended ECC mechanisms. Memory patrol prevents error through memory error detection, correction and downgrading.

With redundancy and hot-replacement mechanisms, major server components including disks, power supply units and fans, can provide the availability to meet customer demands (In SPARC Enterprise T2000).

Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM), a built-in service processor, monitors the entire server system. Should errors occur, ALOM logs and notifies system administrators allowing for swift recovery.

Conclusion

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