Oracle T4 Technology the Answer to Intel Itanium and IBM Power

In response to the industry’s current fascination with Intel Itanium and IBM’s Power technology, Oracle has launched a new generation, business-critical hardware through its new fault-tolerant servers based on its latest SPARC T4 central processing units.

The new T4 microprocessors feature on-chip networking functionality and crypto accelerators, according to the company.  Oracle further noted that the new SuperCluster systems will not only provide “industry-leading” performance, but will also ensure support for mission-critical capabilities.

Here are some of the highlights of the SPARC T4 microprocessor:

• Eight SPARC V9 cores (8-way multi-threading)
• Ability to process up to 64 compute threads at once
• 128 KB L2 cache per core (1MB cache total)
• 4MB shared L3 cache
• Integrated dual-channel memory controller for up to 16 DIMMs
• 256GB PC3-8500 (1066MHz memory)
• Dual, multi-threaded on-chip 10GbE ports
• Two PCI 2.0 x8 ports
• Crypto instruction accelerators
• 16 industry standard ciphers including DES, 3DES, AES, SSL, SHA, RSA

The SPARC T4 will provide organizations with shorter application boot times and rapid batch processing through accelerated single-threaded processing, according to the company.  Oracle further maintains expectations include high throughput performance – providing an ideal platform for consolidation and virtualization of legacy architectures.

There will be five initial systems based on the new generation of T4 chips, including the following: SPARC T4-1 (one socket, 2U); SPARC T4-1B (one socket, 1U); SPARC T4-2 (two sockets 3U); SPARC T4-4 (four sockets, 5U) in addition to the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4.

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