Sun Microsystems T5120 - Manuals

3 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Driving Datacenter Virtualization and Eco-Efficiency Coincident with the need to scale services, many datacenters are recognizing the advantages of deploying fewer standard platforms to run a mixture of commercial and technical wo...

4 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. estate to build increasingly complex processors, with instruction-level parallelism (ILP) as a goal. Today these traditional processors employ very high frequencies along with a variety of sophisticated tactics to accelerate a singl...

5 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. a result, while these designs provide some additional throughput and scalability, they can consume considerable power and generate significant heat — without a commensurate increase in overall performance. Chip Multithreading (CMT) w...

7 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. predecessors, while leading competitors in terms of performance, performance per watt, and SWaP performance (as evaluated by the Space, Watts, and Performance metric detailed later in this section). These systems also extend the ben...

8 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. Designed to complement each other, as well as the rest of Sun’s server product line, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers address the dynamic needs of the modern datacenter. • Efficient and Predictable Scalability With s...

9 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. • A Tradition of Leading Eco Efficiency Sun Fire / Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 servers were the industry's first eco-responsible servers. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers continue this tradition by offering the b...

10 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. Space, Watts, and Performance: Introducing the SWaP Metric Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers deliver leading performance across a range of multithreaded workloads and benchmarks. However, with energy and real estate cost...

11 The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 2 The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology The UltraSPARC T2 processor is the industry’s first system on a chip (SoC), supplying the most cores and threads of any general-purpose processor availab...

12 The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology Sun Microsystems, Inc. Table 2 provides a comparison between the UltraSPARC T2 and the UltraSPARC T1 processor. Table 2. UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processor features Taking Chip Multithreaded Design to the Next Level When Sun’s in-house design te...

13 The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology Sun Microsystems, Inc. simply increasing the number of cores would have gained additional throughput, but would have resulted in consuming extra die area, leaving no room for integrated components such as floating point processors. The final U...

14 The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology Sun Microsystems, Inc. UltraSPARC T2 Processor Architecture The UltraSPARC T2 processor extends Sun’s Throughput Computing initiative with an elegant and robust architecture that delivers real performance to applications. A high- level block...

15 The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology Sun Microsystems, Inc. 3DES, AES, RC4, SHA-1, SHA-256, MD5, RSA to 2048 key, ECC, and CRC32. Embedding hardware cryptographic acceleration for these ciphers allows end-to- end encryption with no penalty in either performance or cost. UltraSP...

17 The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology Sun Microsystems, Inc. Integrated Networking By providing integrated on-chip networking, the UltraSPARC T2 processor is able to provide better networking performance. All network data is supplied directly from and to main memory. Placing net...

18 The UltraSPARC T2 Processor with CoolThreads Technology Sun Microsystems, Inc. Power Management Beyond the inherent efficiencies of CMT design, the UltraSPARC T2 is the first processor to incorporate unique power management features at both the core and memory levels of the processor. These feature...

19 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 3 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers have been designed to provide breakthrough performance while maximizing reliability and minimizing power ...

20 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. The motherboard interconnect for these systems has been greatly simplified. 12-volt power is distributed to the motherboard through a pair of metal bus bars, connected to a Power Distribution Board (PDB). A single flex-...

21 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Fan boards provide connections for power and control for both the primary and secondary fans in the front of the chassis. No cables are required since every dual fan module plugs directly into one of these PCBs whic...

22 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server includes the following major components: • An UltraSPARC T2 processor with four, six, or eight cores at speeds of 1.2 or 1.4 GHz • Up to 64 GB of memory in 16 Fully Buffered Dual ...

23 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. • A DB-9 TTYA serial port is provided for serial devices (not connected to the ILOM system controller serial port). • A total of three PCI Express card slots are provided, two of which can alternately support XAUI car...

24 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. Front and Rear Perspectives Figure 11 illustrates the front and back panels of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server. Figure 11. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, front and rear panels External features of the Sun SP...

25 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. System Management Technology As the number of systems grow in any organization, the complexities of managing the infrastructure throughout its lifecycle becomes increasingly difficult. Effective system management requi...

26 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Management Center Software Sun Management Center software is an element management system for monitoring and managing the Sun environment. Sun Management Center software integrates with the leading enterprise mana...

27 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Monitor When systems are up and running, administrators can use Sun N1 System Manager to monitor system health, helping to ensure that everything is running at the optimal levels. The software provides detailed hard...

28 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 4 Enterprise-Class Software New technology often requires time for tools and applications to arrive, and delivering agile and highly-available services that take advantage of available resources requires stable development tools, operating ...

29 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Support for Virtualized Networking and I/O, and Accelerated Cryptography The Solaris OS contains technology to support and virtualize components and subsystems on the UltraSPARC T2 processor, including support for the on- chip 10 Gb Ethernet port...

30 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. single core, a task that would require additional software and considerable overhead in competing architecture. Figure 12. Sun provides parallelization and virtualization at every level of the technology stack Corresponding layers of virtualization...

31 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. By taking advantage of Logical Domains, organizations gain the flexibility to deploy multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single platform. In addition, administrators can leverage virtual device capabilities to transport an entire software...

32 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. Solaris ™ Containers Providing virtualization at the OS level, Solaris Containers consist of a group of technologies that work together to efficiently manage system resources, virtualize the environment, and provide a complete, isolated, and secure ...

33 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. the activities of the diagnostic system. With Solaris Fault Manager, the overall time from a fault condition, to automated diagnosis, to any necessary human intervention is greatly reduced, increasing application uptime. • Solaris Service Manager T...

34 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. Application Selection Application selection helps identify those applications that stand to benefit from CoolThreads technology. The CoolThreads Selection Tool (coolst) helps determine application suitability for both the UltraSPARC T1 and ULtraSPAR...

35 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Corestat — Corestat provides an on-line monitoring tool for core utilization of the UltraSPARC T2 processor, providing a more accurate measure of processor and system utilization than tools that only measure the utilization of individual threads....

37 Enterprise-Class Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Web Server — As the leading enterprise Web server, Sun Java System Web Server is engineered to meet the stringent requirements of organizations that use Web technologies as a competitive advantage • Web Proxy —The Sun Java System Web Proxy Server...

38 Conclusion Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 5 Conclusion Delivering on the demands of Web 2.0 applications and virtualized, eco- efficient data centers requires a comprehensive approach that includes innovative processors, system platforms, and operating systems, along with leading application, midd...

39 Conclusion Sun Microsystems, Inc. Table 5. Related Websites Web Site URL Description sun.com/coolthreads Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T2 Sun UltraSPARC T2 Processor opensparc.net/opensparc-t2 OpenSPARC T2 sun.com/processors/throughput Throughput Compu...