CPU Type |
SPARC64-VII+ (M3) | T3 | T4 | T5 | M5 | M10/SPARC64-X |
Servers |
M3000, M4000, M5000, M8000, M9000, M9000-64 |
T3-1, T3-2 T3-4 |
T4-1, T4-2 T4-4 |
T5-2, T5-4 T5-8 |
M5-32 | M10-1, M10-4, M10-4S |
CPU Core Codename |
Jupiter++ | S2 | S3 | S3 | S3 | Athena |
CPU Clockfrequency | 2.66-3 GHz | 1.65 GHz | 2.85-3GHz | 3.6 GHZ | 3.6 GHZ | 2.8-3 GHz |
Number of Cores per socket | 4 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 16 |
Number of Threads per core | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
Minimum amount of RAM, number of sockets, and threads per Server |
8GB 1 socket 8 threads |
8GB 1 socket 128 threads |
16GB 1 socket 64 threads |
256GB 2 sockets 256 threads |
1TB 8 sockets 384 threads |
32GB 1 socket 4 threads (2 cores activated from 16) |
Maximum amount of RAM, number of sockets and threads per Server | 4TB 64 sockets 512 threads |
128 GB 4 sockets 512 threads |
2TB 4 sockets 256 threads |
4TB 8 sockets 1024 threads |
32 TB 32 sockets 1536 threads |
32TB 64 sockets 2048 threads |
L3 Cache | no L3$ (12MB L2$ though!) |
no L3$ | 4MB | 8MB | 48MB | no L3$ (24MB shared L2$ though!) |
Virtualization supported |
Dynamic Domains (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
Hard Domains, LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
CPU architecture (ISA) |
sun4u | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v |
OS supported |
Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Control Domain: S11 only. Guest Domains: Solaris 10, 11 |
Solaris 10, 11 |
noteworthy features |
electronically separated domains | 512 threads in 2010! | First S3 based, single thread AND throughput | 1024 threads in 8 RU |
Mainframe class,
Mission critical
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Software on Chip |