Saturday, 03 August, 2013 08:19 Written by Brian B
MultitennantX2 with WebLogic on DB12c. Please join OracleCAF launch to learn more – http://bit.ly/1b5SrgS
SPARC at 25: Past, Present, and Future Register @ http://bit.ly/17NIC41 to hear the story of SPARC from the people who shaped it.
Need backup solution for SPARC compute assets? Check out refreshed Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup & Recovery http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/oos/oracle-backup-and-recovery/oos-bur-bwp-1847104.pdf …
Oracle Engineered Systems eBook Now Available – http://ow.ly/2yJboP
End-of-Life for SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 – http://ow.ly/2yJnAM
Oracle Solaris Cluster Product Bulletin, July 2013 – http://ow.ly/2yJJU3
Very cool videos about Upgrade to Oracle 12c – http://ow.ly/2yJTlX
How to Get Best Performance From the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/sto-recommended-zfs-settings-1951715.html …
What makes WebLogic 12c the most optimized App Server for Oracle Database 12c? Read the WP to find out http://bit.ly/18Nf7Ef
Some facts about SPARC T5 CPU architecture and “Software on Silicon”. What do you think about this new technology? http://pub.vitrue.com/va6o
Excellent Reading! Part 2 – DB12c and WLS – Application Continuity – http://bit.ly/133gF8H
Unveiling Oracle’s Latest Engineered System. Live webcast August 13th, 2013, 10am PT/1pm ET – http://bit.ly/18PyL2q
Beta testing begins this week for the new “Upgrade to Oracle Database 12c” certification exam (1Z1-060) http://bit.ly/1cb7APR
IDC White Paper: Oracle Virtual Networking Delivering Fabric Virtualization and Software Defined Networks http://ow.ly/2yLBAJ
Double Maximum Memory Capacity for SPARC T5-1B & T5-2 Servers http://ow.ly/2yMAvN
YouTube Video: Hands-On Labs for Oracle VM – http://pub.vitrue.com/4a3v
Complete integration, continuous innovation: See how Oracle Solaris and systems are evolving: – http://pub.vitrue.com/OUER
Database-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service – http://ow.ly/2yNKEK
The Oracle Linux System Administration course is on Oracle’s top selling course list, check it out yourself https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/best_system_administration_training_for
New Friday tip: removing unwanted networks in Oracle VM – http://bit.ly/1clXH1Q
READ_ME_FIRST: What Do I Do All of Those SPARC Threads? http://ow.ly/2yQrfq
Oracle Technology Day: Plug into the Cloud with Oracle Database 12c – Kolkata – http://ow.ly/2yRhB2
Using Ksplice for diagnostic purposes – http://pub.vitrue.com/POwROracle
Saturday, 15 June, 2013 22:29 Written by Brian B
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
|
Software on Chip |