Sun and Fujitsu unveil T5440 server
Published: 13 Oct 2008 16:55 BST
Sun and its partner Fujitsu on Monday announced the T5440 server, at what Sun describes as an "aggressive" price point.
According to Sun, the server features intelligent fan control (IFC), which adjusts rotational fan speed according to changes in temperature. The system also divides the chassis and fans into cooling zones, which will respond only to those fans that are needed to compensate for changes in temperature.
The system also features virtualisation features. Sun said customers using Solaris 8 and 9, and running multiple environments on a single Sparc-based system, can run them as virtualised systems.
In a 4U-sized package, the Sparc Enterprise T5440 server is the first chip-multi-threaded (CMT) server to scale up to four processors, Sun claimed. It can be expanded to support up to 28 PCI-E slots, giving two-and-a-half times "more slots than the [competing] quad-socket servers", Sun said.
The T5440 server also offers I/O performance and expandability that has up to 10Gbps of raw I/O bandwidth.
With up to 32 cores (256 threads) and 512GB of memory, the T5440 server will have a list price of $44,995 (£25,840).
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