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predecessors, while leading competitors in terms of performance, performance per watt, and SWaP performance (as evaluated by the Space, Watts, and Performance metric detailed later in this section). These systems also extend the benefits of CMT from multithreaded commercial workloads into technical workloads rich in floating point operations.
With support for 64 threads, large memory, cryptographic acceleration, and integrated on-chip 10 Gb Ethernet networking and I/O technology, these servers represent a departure from traditional system design. The 1U Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 is ideal for providing high throughput within significant power, cooling, and space constraints, delivering a 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 processor in a space- and power-efficient 1U rackmount package. As a compute node with massively horizontally scaled environments, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 can help provide a substantial building block for application tier, Web services, or even high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Network infrastructure applications such as portal, directory, network identity, file service, and backup are all a good fit for this server.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server provides both throughput as well as expandability, with extra I/O and internal disk options afforded by the 2U rackmount form factor. With greater I/O and internal disk, typical workloads include demanding mid-tier application server deployments or Web- and application-tier consolidation, virtualization, and consolidation projects requiring maximum uptime with future growth and integration into diverse environments. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 is also ideal for OLTP database deployments.
Figure 2. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers
