14th Oct 2008

Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems have released the new SPARC Enterprise Model T5440 with 8 core, 64 thread UtraSPARC T2 Plus processors.

A pinnacle in throughput computing servers, SPARC Enterprise T5440 offers outstanding application and OLTP server platform performance with the best space efficiency, throughput performance and lowest power consumption in its mid-range UNIX server class. With up to 4 processor sockets, Model T5440 can provide max. 32 cores/256 threads, and 512GB memory in a very compact 4U chassis. In similar level UNIX server performance comparisons T5440 proves its superior cost efficiency with lowest power consumption and space requirements.

Further, the standard availability of innovative virtualization technologies such as Logical Domains (LDoms) and Solaris Containers, lets T5440 shrink datacenter costs and reverse the growing numbers of servers. With such virtualization functions offered as standard, T5440 delivers even more cost efficiency as part of a server consolidation strategy.

With best-in-class throughput performance, cost efficiency and lowest power consumption, T5440 is also an optimal Green IT platform.

High Scalability and Compact Chassis that's Rich in Resources

The doubling of computing resources and the quadrupling of memory capacity enabled by Model T5440 easily accommodates much larger workloads than the previous top of the range Model T5240.

SPARC Enterprise is a Market-leading Green Server

Comparison at same server performance levels, shows Model T5440 uses around half the power consumption and approximately one-fifth the server space when compared to HP Integrity rx6600; proving the best cost efficiency in power consumption and rack space in its class.

T5440 reduces running costs with power management features at both core and memory levels including reduced instruction rates, parking of idle threads and cores and by turning off clocks in cores and memories when not required.

SPARC Enterprise T5440 has innovative virtualization functions including LDoms and Solaris Containers as standard. This makes it a most efficient server consolidation platform.

Firmware based LDoms provide virtualization technology capable of accommodating application and OS environments without any change to application code. Due to the separate nature each OS environments, any OS or application failure in any partition never affects operations in other partitions.

Solaris Containers is partitioning technology at the OS level. It can accommodate multiple applications within the same operating system partition, allotting hardware resources such CPU and memory and I/O with fine grained flexibility.

Using these virtualization technologies, provided as standard, Model T5440 delivers an optimal server consolidation platform with outstanding cost-efficiency.

Customer and ISV endorsements

"ATG's e-commerce suite powers some of the world's largest shopping sites. Our customers rely on our solution to handle millions of visits a day and deliver personalized online shopping experiences to tens of thousands of concurrent users, so it's critical that the servers underlying the ATG applications are reliable, high-performing and highly-scalable," said Drew Reynolds, ATG Senior Vice President. "Many of these customers rely on CMT line of servers to run mission critical e-commerce applications and we are confident that new quad-core T5440 server will continue to meet their needs and offer more processing power to handle their growth and increasing use of rich media."

The combination of Acquia Drupal with MySQL database system, SAMP platform, and the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides an ideal environment for social publishing solutions.” Bryan House, Director Product Marketing, Acquia

"As the leading provider of Spend Management solutions, Ariba helps companies analyze, understand, and manage their corporate spending to achieve increased cost savings and business process efficiency. Our enterprise customers demand powerful, reliable server platforms on which to run Ariba applications. The new quad socket server with CoolThreads will provide compelling Price/Performance solution for our customers, said Ariba Performance QA Manager Ronnie Fong."

"JDA's Enterprise Supply Chain Architecture and business solutions provide unmatched performance and scalability for supply chain optimization using industry-leading grid computing technology. new quad-core T5440 server delivers outstanding performance for these mission critical applications across thousands of users. Combining JDA's Enterprise Architecture and CoolThread server redefines the price/performance of mid-range computing, allowing customers to further improve cost-per-calculation and to achieve a stronger ROI."

Larry Ferrere, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Chief Marketing Officer, JDA.

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