Tuesday, October 9, 2012

SPARC T5, M4 and SPARC64-X

Short summary of SPARC processor information that was disclosed at Oracle world, in the near future Oracle will release two different SPARC processors and Fujitsu will release a new SPARC64 processor with support for LDOM.

SPARC T5 (early next year)
  • 16 Cores 128 threads 
  • 28nm 
  • 25% increased thread performance to T4 
  • 2.5x throughput compared to T4 
  • Scales from 1 to 8 processors 
  • PCIe Gen 3 
  • 8MB L3 cache
  • LDOM virtualization (as with all previous T-series)
  • Solaris 10 update 11 or Solaris 11.1
SPARC M4 (next year)
  • 6 cores 48 threads 
  • Scales to 32+ sockets 
  • 48MB L2 cache 
  • 28nm 
  • 3.6GHz 
  • 5-6x performance per socket compared to M-series 
  • LDOM virtualization
  • 32TB+ memory configurations
  • Solaris 11 only (but S10 support in LDOM)
SPARC64-X
  • LDOM virtualization 
  • 16 cores 32 threads 
  • 24MB L2 Cache 
  • 3 GHz 
  • On Chip  DB floating point 
  • Crypto acceleration 
  • Runs both S10 and S11 in lab

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