Sun Microsystems SPARC T5220 - Manual (Page 9)

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 benefits of CMT
from multithreaded commercial workloads into technical workloads rich in floating
point operations.
With support for 64 threads, large memory, cryptographic acceleration, and integrated
on-chip 10 Gb Ethernet networking and I/O technology, these servers represent a
departure from traditional system design. The 1U Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 is ideal
for providing high throughput within significant power, cooling, and space constraints,
delivering a 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 processor in a space- and power-efficient 1U
rackmount package. As a compute node with massively horizontally scaled
environments, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 can help provide a substantial building
block for application tier, Web services, or even high performance computing (HPC)
infrastructure. Network infrastructure applications such as portal, directory, network
identity, file service, and backup are all a good fit for this server.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server provides both throughput as well as
expandability, with extra I/O and internal disk options afforded by the 2U rackmount
form factor. With greater I/O and internal disk, typical workloads include demanding
mid-tier application server deployments or Web- and application-tier consolidation,
virtualization, and consolidation projects requiring maximum uptime with future
growth and integration into diverse environments. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 is
also ideal for OLTP database deployments.
Figure 2. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers