Sun and Fujitsu reveal Sparc Enterprise M3000
Fujitsu and its server partner Sun Microsystems have released an entry-level server that will fill the product gap between the company’s quad-core Sparc T and Sparc64 VII models.
The new server is code-named “Ikkaku” and is sold as the Sparc Enterprise M3000. The Ikkaku features a single-socket box, and the four cores in that singe Sparc64 VII processor run at 2.52 GHz. The processor has 64KB of L1 data cache and 64KB of L1 instruction cache per core, and 5 MB of L2 cache on chip shared by the four cores. The server’s motherboard supports up to32GB of main memory using 4 GB of memory, and features four low-profile PCI-Express x8 peripheral slots.
The system uses the same Jupiter server bus as larger Sparc Enterprise M servers to link the components of the system together. That bus has 17BG/sec of peak aggregate bandwidth and 4GB/sec of I/O bandwidth. According to Sun, the M3000 has double the performance of the entry servers using UltraSparc-Iii processors.
John Fowler, the executive vice president in charge of Sun’s Systems Group, has brought the M3000 to the market for a few reasons. Customers deploying large Jupiter systems usually use an n-tier architecture, with larger servers running the databases behind applications and web application servers accessing the data and running the application code that feeds off the databases.
Although some companies don’t mind mixing one type of database and application servers, some do, and Sun and Fujitsu needed a smaller server for midsized customers. Also, the system is relatively quiet, at just 47 decibels, which Sun say is around the same as a quiet office.
The Sparc Enterprise M3000 server is available now. A base-level machine with a single processor, 4 GB of main memory, two 146 GB disks, a DVD drive and a Solaris 10 license will cost you around $15,000.
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