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Links – Week ending 8/2

Saturday, 03 August, 2013 08:19 Written by Brian B

MultitennantX2 with on . Please join launch to learn more –

at 25: Past, Present, and Future Register @ to hear the story of SPARC from the people who shaped it.

Need backup solution for compute assets? Check out refreshed Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup & Recovery

Oracle Engineered Systems eBook Now Available –

End-of-Life for SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 –

Oracle Solaris Cluster Product Bulletin, July 2013 –

Very cool videos about Upgrade to Oracle 12c –

How to Get Best Performance From the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

What makes 12c the most optimized App Server for Database 12c? Read the WP to find out

Some facts about T5 CPU architecture and “Software on Silicon”. What do you think about this new technology?

Excellent Reading! Part 2 – and WLS – Application Continuity –

Unveiling Oracle’s Latest Engineered System. Live webcast August 13th, 2013, 10am PT/1pm ET –

Beta testing begins this week for the new “Upgrade to Oracle Database 12c” certification exam (1Z1-060)

IDC White Paper: Oracle Virtual Networking Delivering Fabric Virtualization and Software Defined Networks

Double Maximum Memory Capacity for SPARC T5-1B & T5-2 Servers

YouTube Video: Hands-On Labs for Oracle VM –

Complete integration, continuous innovation: See how and systems are evolving: –

Database-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service –

The System Administration course is on Oracle’s top selling course list, check it out yourself

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Oracle Technology Day: Plug into the Cloud with Oracle Database 12c – Kolkata –

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A SPARC CPU Overview: SPARC64-VII+ (M3), T3, T4, T5, M5, M10 – how do they compare?

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
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