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SUN SPARC→ ENTERPRISE

SUN SPARC→ ENTERPRISE

T5120 AND T5220

SERVER ARCHITECTURE

Unleashing the UltraSPARC→ T2 Processor with CoolThreads™ Technology

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October 2007

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Sun Microsystems manual Server Architecture, SUN SPARC→ ENTERPRISE T5120 AND T5220, White Paper October

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SUN SPARC→ ENTERPRISE T5120 AND T5220 SERVER ARCHITECTUREWhite Paper October Unleashing the UltraSPARC→ T2 Processor with CoolThreads TechnologySun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Table of ContentsEnterprise-Class Software ConclusionExecutive Summary Executive SummaryBusiness Challenges for Web The Evolution of Chip Multithreading CMTChapter Building out for Web ScaleMoore’s Law, and the Diminishing Returns of Traditional Processor Rule-Changing Chip Multithreading CMT TechnologyDesign Driving Datacenter Virtualization and Eco-EfficiencyLarge caches Superscalar designs Out-of-order execution Chip Multiprocessing with Multicore ProcessorsVery high clock rates Deep pipelines Speculative pre-fetches The Evolution of Chip Multithreading CMTMemory Latency Chip Multithreading CMT with CoolThreads TechnologyCompute The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 ServersFigure 2. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers The Evolution of Chip Multithreading CMTAccelerated Time to Market Efficient and Predictable ScalabilitySimplified Management The Industrys Most Open PlatformSystem and Datacenter Reliability A Tradition of Leading Eco EfficiencyZero-Cost Security Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220Space, Watts, and Performance Introducing the SWaP Metric SWaP = Performance / Space * Power Consumption whereSpace refers to the height of the server in rack units RUs The Evolution of Chip Multithreading CMTChapter The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads TechnologyPowering faster networking to serve new network-intensive content Taking Chip Multithreaded Design to the Next LevelIncreasing service levels and reducing downtime processorMemory Latency The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads TechnologyComputeTime CoreUltraSPARC T2 Processor Architecture UltraSPARC T2 Core Architecture and Pipelines Fetch Cache Pick Decode Execute Mem Bypass W Stream Processing Unit Integrated NetworkingIntegral PCI Express Support 1.Supported in a future Solaris OS releaseLimiting speculation such as conditional branches not taken Power ManagementExtensive clock gating in the data path, control blocks, and arrays The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads TechnologySystem-Level Architecture Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server ArchitectureChapter UltraSPARC T2I/O Subsystem Memory SubsystemEnclosure Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server OverviewFront and Rear Perspectives Enclosure Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server OverviewFigure 11. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, front and rear panels Front and Rear PerspectivesIntegrated Lights-Out Management ILOM System Controller System Management TechnologySun N1 System Manager Sun Management Center SoftwareDiscover GroupManage MonitorHybrid User Interface Scalability and Support for CoolThreads Technology Enterprise-Class SoftwareCMT Awareness Fine-Granularity ManageabilitySolaris ZFS File System End-to-End Virtualization TechnologyA Secure and Robust Enterprise-Class Environment A Multithreaded Hypervisorat all layers Sun Logical DomainsApplications LDOMApplication UserDriver Virtual NetworkSolaris Fault Manager Fault Management and Predictive Self HealingSolaris Containers Solaris ZonesSolaris CoolTools for SPARC Performance and Rapid Time-to-Market Solaris Service ManagerI/O Retirement logs errors and faults fmlog logs faults detected by the systemApplication Selection Tuning and DebuggingDevelopment Deployment Sun Java Enterprise System Java ESadministration utilities and it doesn’t make sense for them to assemble and integrate traditional middleware this way either Web Server - As the leading enterprise Web server, Sun Java System Web Server is engineered to meet the stringent requirements of organizations that use Web technologies as a competitive advantage For More Information ConclusionChapter ConclusionWeb Site URL ConclusionOn the Web sun.com/coolthreads Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture