Medium and low-end servers are a batch market, and is also a market in SUN. IDC analysts pointed out that IT managers increasingly procure the cheap service from Sun. After this movement, we can see that there are vendors to use technologies in large hosts and high-end servers for low-end servers, such as virtual engines, dynamic allocation, etc., want to increase the resource utilization of UNIX servers, and form medium low New rules of the market competition in the UNIX server market.
Ultrasparc IIII processor
Ultrasparc processor model
The SUN Fire V440 three-feet of the Ultrasparc IIII processor is used, which is a relatively stable pattern, as today's UNIX server market. Introducing a new technique, it is possible to break this balance, making a maker a bigger winner. As a result, manufacturers have begun to use techniques in large hosts and high-end servers for low-end servers, such as virtual engines, dynamic allocation, and the like, want to enhance the resource utilization of UNIX servers, and form new rules for market-low-end UNIX server market competition. However, as a corner of the three countries in the UNIX server market, Sun believes that not only the big knife is needed, but also promotes the formation of new market rules, but also need moisturites and silence. For example, although Sun has also joined the competition of the latest processor chip in SPARC IV, in the medium and low-end UNIX server market, they are still robust well with SPARC IIII-based servers. SUN authorities revealed that the medium and low-end servers use SPARC IIII to be universal, but a long-term strategy. After all, UNIX servers have too many differences from the IA-32 architecture server. The "water" of this market is much more, not a wind, will set off an uproar. One "core" Dingjiang Mountain is not feasible, some manufacturers want their new processors to "ignore", including the entire UNIX market. However, UNIX and RISC markets have great differences from IA and Windows markets, and Jiangshan is not easy. The UNIX server market is compared to the IA-32 architecture server market, the biggest difference is the application type change space. The IA-32 architecture is derived from the desktop system. Although it looks far exceeds the UNIX server from the number of installed, it is very narrow from the application type. It is precisely because of this, the Windows operating system can be in the world. The size and application type of the UNIX server is extremely large, from the workgroup level to department-level, enterprise or even large data center servers, applications can be described as a thousand variables. In such a variable application environment, if you want a processor to "everywhere", use "universal single" to play the world, maybe it is technical, but it is difficult to achieve the ideal state in the return on investment. . "One unified rivers and lakes, the number of the world", this is a quite infectious dream. However, it will be found that the processor is used as a computing engine of the commercial application with a professional vision, and it should be extremely based on different applications. Good balance. Different demand, countermeasures are different. For example, an enterprise-level server for auction sites and a high-performance computing node for engineering technologies can also use UNIX servers, but the demand for both processors is very different. Similarly, high-density blade servers and workgroup servers do not have the same requirements. Former innovation, target-oriented design and peaceful attitude, this is the core concept of Sun's SPARC series processor. Among them, "target-oriented design" is the most realistic color. In response to complex and diverse actual needs of UNIX server applications, Sun has designed different models SPARC processors for different servers. Among them, SPARC IIII is a typical medium and low-sized server-specific processor. The disease is in order to win the manufacturer, and the manufacturer is now intended that the performance ratio of performance is now unable to fully meet the needs of users. The new market requires a new business concept, and UNIX servers should provide very fast response and dynamic multi-change applications. And help customers increase the usage rate of resources. Indeed, for large hosts or high-end servers, because of the parallelism of a large number of high-performance processors, all cost costs of all computing resources are relatively high.
In this case, increasing resource utilization is important for reducing the overall cost cost of the system, using high-end technologies such as virtual engine for this purpose, and its investment returns are worthwhile. However, in the application environment of the medium and low-end servers, due to the reduction of the cost of calculating the resource itself, it has been used as a design objective. If it takes a high cost to improve the resource utilization, the result will inevitably be lost. For medium and low-end servers, horizontal telescopic capabilities and small processors parallel processing capabilities are more practical. SUN's medium and low-end server-specific processor SPARC IIII is designed for 1-4 processors, while ensuring the highest standard RAS capabilities. It is important to emphasize that the "I" integration "is integrated in the code of the SPARC IIII. That is, this processor has extremely high integration, including storage and I / O controllers, a large number of chips, and system bus that can effectively reduce system complexity. In fact, for some specific applications, SPARC IIII is significantly effective in reducing costs. For example, Sun Fire V440 and V480 These two servers use UltrasParc IIII and equipped with 1MB of 2-level Cache for each processor, which uses an electronic design with 8M Cache, an electronic design in Texas Instrument Co., Ltd. In the automation application test, the performance of the two is almost the same, and the prior price is almost half of the latter. Soft hard integration is endless, although the Ultrasparc processor is the most important competitive advantage of Sun, but Sun is very understood that the application software is the direct power of supporting customer business operations. As long as the application can play the greatest efficiency and economy, users will not care what processors have been used. At the same time, regardless of how the economic environment changes, investment protection is a principle that is always constant. Therefore, in 15 years, Sun SPARC series processors have been compatible with binary compatibility. That is, no matter the software developed by the UltrasParc processor, you can run on the newly launched processor. Establish a set of computing system infrastructures based on open standards and mature technology, Sun has long adhered to such strategies and thus won extensive support for ISV and developers. Application can be developed on any set of UltrasParc systems, then free zooming on systems larger or smaller. It is precisely because of this, in the platform of SPARC / Solaris, there is a world's largest 64-bit developer group, which has accumulated thousands of different applications. With the rapid spread of Java, Sun's expansion capacity in software is getting stronger. Although software written in Java software can run on a variety of different platforms, but Sun's processors, servers, and entire software platforms are specially optimized for Java. From hardware to Java software, Sun is the owner of technology. If the user adopts a full set of Sun products, it will naturally achieve excellent results in terms of economic and effectiveness. Rules can be changed, but the rules are unavoidable. It is human formulation, but the law is objective, and it is not transferred by people. The price-cost ratio is an important indicator of the medium and low-end UNIX server. This is the law determined by the objective needs of the market, rather than which company is a rules that have been developed. No one can change, can not be contrary! Medium and low-end servers are a batch market, and is also a market in SUN. Idc analysts pointed out that IT managers increasingly procure the cheap servers of Sun, such as V480 and V440, because the company's IT budget is getting tight.
