Sun Microsystems T5220 Tradition of Leading Eco Efficiency, System and Datacenter Reliability

9 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc.

•A Tradition of Leading Eco Efficiency

Sun Fire / Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 servers were the industry's first eco-responsible servers. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers continue this tradition by offering the best performance and performance-per-watt across a wide range of commercial and technical workloads. In addition, the UltraSPARC T2 processor is the first and only processor to incorporate unique power management features at both core and memory levels of the processor.

•System and Datacenter Reliability

Reliability is key to keeping applications available and costs down. With the greater levels of integration provided by an SoC design, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers offer greatly reduced part counts, and provide commensurately higher levels of reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). Lower power consumption and higher performance per watt greatly reduce generated heat loads and the associated issues they cause. Technologies such as Solaris Predictive Self Healing are integrated with the hardware, and help keep systems available.

•Zero-Cost Security

Providing secure communications and data protection has never been more important, with attempted electronic intrusion and theft at an all-time high. With up to eight integrated cryptographic accelerators on each UltraSPARC T2 processor, there is simply no need to send plain text on the network or store plain text in storage systems. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers support many more crypto operations per second than competitive processors and dedicated crypto accelerator cards, with minimal impact to system overhead.

Table 1 compares the features of Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers.

Table 1. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 server features

Feature

CPUs

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120	Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
Server	Server
Four-, six-, or eight-core 1.2 GHz	Four-, six-, or eight-core 1.2 GHz
or 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2	or eight-core 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC
processor	T2 processor

Threads	Up to 64	Up to 64
Memory capacity	Up to 64 GB	Up to 64 GB
	(1, 2, or 4 GB FBDIMM)	(1, 2, of 4 GB FBDIMM)
Maximum internal	Up to four SFF 2.5-inch SAS	Up to eight SFF SAS 2.5-inch SAS
disk drives	73 or 146 GB disk drives,	73 or 146 GB disk drives,
	RAID 0/1	RAID 0/1
Removable/pluggable	Slimline DVD-R	Slimline DVD-R
I/O	Four USB 2.0 ports	Four USB 2.0 ports
PCI	One x8 PCI Express slot,	Two x8	PCI Express
	Two x4 PCI Express or XAUI	Two x4	PCI Express
	combo slotsa	Two x4	PCI Express or XAUI
		combo slotsa