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Sun SPARC Enterprise Server Family Architecture Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power
White Papers Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with all of the benefits of traditional mainframes and none of the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers System and Resource Management
White Papers The next generation Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are the most powerful systems offered by Sun Microsystems. This paper discusses the system and resource management tools available for the Sun SPARC Enterprise servers.
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
High Availability in the Datacenter: Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
White Papers With Sun SPARC Enterprise servers, Solaris Cluster software, XSCF Control Package firmware, Sun Management Center software, and an extensive line of enterprise-class services and training, Sun provides an end-to-end solution for helping...
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Photos: Sun's Sparc Enterprise servers
News Sun and Fujitsu have launched their jointly designed Sparc Enterprise Server family, which is the new name for what was previously known as the Advanced Product Line. The Sparc Enterprise M4000 shown here accommodates as many as four of Fujitsu's...
[April 18, 2007, 13:02]
Sun releases Sparc specs in Linux love bid
News The specifications are expected to be useful to Sun as well as outsiders because they're intended to stabilize the heretofore changing interface that operation systems use to communicate with Sparc. David Miller, who runs the independent Sparc...
[February 15, 2006, 8:00]
Sun to open Sparc's doors
News The UltraSparc T1, code-named Niagara, is a major part of Sun's effort to restore waning enthusiasm for the company's Sparc line, which has lost market share to Power chips from IBM and x86 chips from Intel and AMD in recent years.
[December 7, 2005, 8:30]
Sun and Fujitsu merge Sparc lines
News Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu will merge their Sparc processor-based server lines by mid-2006, the companies said on Tuesday. Fujitsu for years has produced its own Sparc chip family, Sparc64, whose different hardware interface can't fit into Sun's...
[June 2, 2004, 8:40]
Sun and Fujitsu to boost Sparc speed
News Sun and Fujitsu engineers on Tuesday promised significant performance increases with two next-generation chips, models they hope will help keep the Sparc line relevant. Both processors, Sun's eight-core Niagara 2 and Fujitsu's dual-core Sparc64 VI...
[October 11, 2006, 9:20]
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Open Modular Architecture With a Choice of Sun SPARC , Intel Xeon , and AMD Opteron Platforms
White Papers The Participation Age is driving new demands that are focused squarely on capabilities of the datacenter. Web services and rapidly escalating Internet use are driving competitive organizations to lead with innovative new services and scalable...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Sun and Fujitsu update Sparc64 VII chips
News Sun and Fujitsu on Tuesday announced new quad-core Sparc64 VII processors and an enhanced memory controller for the Sparc Enterprise server line. Sun's Sparc Enterprise servers can use both Sparc64 VI and VII processors in a single domain, meaning...
[October 14, 2009, 15:55]
Linux back on Sparc
News Dave Miller, the lead programmer for Linux on Sun's Sparc processors, wrote on his blog on Friday he has fired up the open source operating system on Sun's new UltraSparc T1 Niagara-based server. The move is an early milestone in Sun's effort, not...
[February 20, 2006, 14:10]
Low-spec Niagara on the way
News Sun's forthcoming Niagara chip has eight cores, but the company will sell versions with six or possibly even four, the company's top Sparc server executive said Tuesday. The lower-end versions are chips that have some manufacturing defects but that...
[September 22, 2005, 9:25]
Sun stakes servers on Rock
News Sun Microsystems plans to release servers based on its future high-end Rock processors by 2008, signalling the company's long-term commitment to the embattled Sparc family. But Sparc is crucial to the company's high-end server plans and to Sun's...
[July 20, 2004, 9:15]
Sun-Fujitsu effort produces Sparc servers
News The first servers are emerging this month from a Sun-Fujitsu alliance begun three years ago in a major effort to keep the Sparc processor line alive and kicking. Overall, the Sparc Enterprise Server systems are jointly designed, but they use...
[April 17, 2007, 17:53]
Sun breathes new life into Sparc efforts
News Sun has launched a new business unit to sell its Sparc processors, a return to an idea it had dropped years ago. David Yen, currently executive vice president of storage but previously in charge of Sun's Sparc work, will lead the new group and...
[March 28, 2007, 9:43]
Sun to supercharge UltraSparc with Afara acquisition
News Sun designed the original Sparc chips, but the chip's specifications are owned by the Sparc International nonprofit organisation and available for anyone who spends the $90 (£63) licensing fee, Yen said.
[June 26, 2002, 9:43]
Sun releases plans to build on Rock
News Sun's current Sparc chips are built with a Texas Instruments manufacturing process with 90nm circuitry elements. Sun is also working on a partnership called APL with Fujitsu for a conventional Sparc designs.
[April 18, 2006, 9:25]
Sun releases UK blade prices, defends SPARC
News Sun has issued UK prices for the mixed-processor blade servers it released on Monday, and defended the role of SPARC in a market sector that has gone completely with Intel. The Intel blades will run Linux or Sun's Solaris, and the SPARC blades will...
[February 11, 2003, 12:56]
Solaris and Sparc gain virtualisation focus
News Sun later this year will introduce virtualisation technology to let its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple operating systems simultaneously, thus catching up to a feature already built into Unix machines from IBM and HP.
[January 26, 2006, 9:30]
Sun uses Intel and AMD for budget blades
News Sun's first blade servers run its own Sparc microprocessors, but the company said it intends to sell Intel and AMD-based blades that run the Linux operating system as well. Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil on Monday a partnership with...
[May 19, 2003, 9:39]
