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Tokyo and Santa Clara, CA (OBBeC) - Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems have announced an enhanced line of SPARC Enterprise servers – M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000, which according to the companies, delivers a highly scalable, enterprise-class virtualization and consolidation platform with up to 80 percent better performance on commercial applications and 2x better performance on HPC workloads and using 44 percent less energy per core.
The new SPARC Enterprise servers are based on the quad-core SPARC64 Ⅶ processor and the Solaris Operating System (OS). Both companies affirmed that the new servers are ideal platforms for high-availability, mission-critical enterprise applications including large-scale databases, BIDW, ERP and CRM. The new processor is also available as an option for seamless upgrades in existing SPARC Enterprise servers. 
"The SPARC Enterprise servers advanced to a new stage with the SPARC64 Ⅶ processor, which provides spectacular performance, reliability and eco-efficiency and benefits from Fujitsu's unparalleled mainframe heritage," said Tatsuo Tomita, corporate senior executive vice president and a board member at Fujitsu. "We are confident that the SPARC64 Ⅶ processor which powers the world's most scalable and flexible systems, not only protects but also increases the value of our customer's investments."
Further to the announcement, the new SPARC Enterprise servers build on the existing systems co-designed by Fujitsu and Sun and extend long-term customer investment protection through binary compatibility, industry leading hardware and software partitioning and the ultra-flexible "mix and match" SPARC64 processor architecture. These SPARC Enterprise servers are the only systems on the market with the ability to mix SPARC64 Ⅵ and Ⅶ processors in a single domain, enabling customers to increase performance – without downtime and without requiring other hardware changes, outlines the report. Moreover, customers can minimize upgrade costs by using the new SPARC64 Ⅶ option in current SPARC Enterprise servers.
With the addition of the new quad-core SPARC64 Ⅶ processor, the SPARC Enterprise servers also offer unmatched scalability in a single symmetric multi-processor system (SMP) system – from 16 to 256 cores. The SPARC64 Ⅶ processor also delivers the RAS functions of SPARC64 Ⅵ, including hardware instruction retry, dynamic degradation and parity-protected processor registers, to maintain the levels of performance and reliability needed in mission-critical systems.
The new processor consumes 44 percent less energy per core than the SPARC64 Ⅵ chip, enabling customers to consolidate and minimize energy consumption. Leveraging built-in hardware partitioning features and Solaris Containers, the new SPARC Enterprise servers form an “ultra-high” density environment that provides powerful virtualization capabilities.
The new SPARC Enterprise systems are available immediately directly from Fujitsu and Sun and their authorized resellers. The SPARC64 Ⅶ processors will also be available as upgrades for existing systems.
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