Product Facts ⏐ Issue: June 01, 2008 ⏐ Product: SPARC® Enterprise M5000 Page 6 / 38
SPARC® ENTERPRISE M5000 is a midrange server developed using the expertise of Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems. It
has been designed to be the best choice in mission-critical computing solutions. High scalability comes from eight CPU
chips (16 cores) and is backed by exceptional reliability and excellent means for asset investment protection. Based on
SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing) architecture it delivers high scalability without change to applications.
Features
1. SPARC® ENTERPRISE M5000 is a scalable enterprise server.
• Up to eight dual core CPU chips can be installed.
• Up to 256 GB of memory and 50 I/O slots (when four I/O Boxes are connected) are supported for excellent scalability.
• The maximum data transfer performance of 64 GB/s ensures excellent linear scalability up to 16 processor-cores in an
SMP configuration.
2. Dual-core SPARC®64 VI processors are used in this server.
• 90 nm copper wiring technology is used in the processor to provide higher performance at lower power consumption.
• The dual-core processors have large caches (primary cache: instructions 128 KB + data 128 KB per CPU core;
secondary cache: 5 MB per CPU chip) appropriate for enterprise class server systems.
• Multi-core and multi-threading technologies ensure high parallel-processing performance.
• Both the primary and secondary cache use ECC (Error Checking & Correction) for high reliability.
• Registers and ALU are all parity protected. This further enhances the high reliability of the server.
3. Integrated high-reliability makes this server suitable for 24-hour operation.
• All address/data paths between key LSIs, such as CPU chips, memory controllers, I/O controllers and system
controllers, are ECC protected for higher reliability.
• Key components are redundant and hot replacement is supported.