[Documentation] UltrasParc IV processor has been applied to Sun new entry-level, new mid-range and high-end server systems, and Sun is carrying the corporate server market to one by breaking performance, application throughput and system utilization. A new level. 1. Overview March 17, 2004, Sun has released a new Sun Fire system in Beijing, including Sun Fire E2900, E4900, E6900, E20K, and E25K. At the same time, Sun also released five new reference architecture and solutions to respond to customers to speed deployment, reduce cost requirements. The Sun new mid-range, the high-end system uses the UltraSPARC IV multi-threaded processor and software for optimizing the large throughput. In the third quarter of 2004, SUN launched two entry-level new Solaris server systems with Ultrasparc IV processors: Sun Fire V490 and Sun Fire V890. These two systems use Sun with breakthrough chip multi-thread (CMT) technology, which can double the application throughput at the same physical configuration while maintaining all binary compatibility. The new Sun Fire V890 server establishes Sun's leadership in the 4th and 8th server market, delivers the best price ratio of $ 50,000 below. Sun is facing fierce competition from companies from IBM, HP, Intel and other companies. The UltrasParc IV processor has been applied to Sun new entry-level, new mid-range and high-end server systems, and Sun is using the performance and application of throughput. And system utilization, bringing the enterprise server market to a new level. Second, the Sun Ultrasparc IV processor Ultrasparc IV uses two UltrasParc III cores and uses the same Fireplane system internal interconnect line as UltrasParc III. Therefore, it can be used to replace the UltraSPARC III in the Sun Fire Server server without having to change the other configuration of the system, and the UltrasParc IV is still using the same manufacturing process as UltrasParc III, just redesign on the interface multiplexing, can be directly swapped The UltrasParc III system board in the original system is directly doubled. Ultrasparc IV system block diagram See the block diagram, two processor core sharing system channels, system bus bandwidth 4.8GB / s, each processor can get 2.4Gb / s. As with UltrasParc III, each kernel in UltrasParc IV supports 16GB of memory with Chip-Kill 4BIT error correction techniques. Although the number of pins of the Ultrasparc IV increases, it is still compatible with the current board, so it can join the existing system. Although Ultrasparc IV is basically directly integrated with two Ultrasparc III, it still has made some improvements. Including the edge processing capability of floating point adders from hardware, and refine enhancements to 2KB write cache. The main purpose of this two-point improvement is to improve the performance of the processor in certain technical calculations and large workload calculations. 0.13μ UltraSPARC IV kernel
The UltrasParc IV has a total of 16MB of external cache, and each core is exclusive 8MB - this is the same as the UltrasParc III. So this 16MB slower is logically completely independent. Due to the increase in the total capacity of the external cache and the retrieval line width decrease (512b minus 128b), the TAG RAM size of the external cache is increased to 8 times. The initial Ultrasparc IV processor was manufactured by Ti, with a core size of 355 square millimeters, including 6,300 transistors, two versions of 1.05GHz and 1.2GHz. Due to the two kernels, the power consumption of Ultrasparc IV is also doubled, and the 1.2GHz version will reach 100W, and the current UltrasParc III is only 53W. After several months of complex applications show that UltrasParc IV has excellent performance, running stability is also as Ultrasparc III, after all, is the product of the same core. The Ultrasparc IV processor is mainly Sun's four-way or higher server, and its life cycle will last until 2006. Sun will produce the next generation of Ultrasparc IV processors with 0.09 micron process. In addition to reducing power consumption and improving operating frequencies, 0.09 micron UltrasParc IV will also adjust the data pipeline, increasing instruction access bandwidth, hardware and software prefetching function will be enhanced. In addition, the most obvious aspect is to increase the capacity of the L2 cache, although the specific capacity is not determined, but it is probably between 2 to 4 MB. It will also provide a larger L3 cache, and these caches can be shared by each kernel. From a functional point of view, the performance of 0.09 micron UltrasParc IV can achieve more than 4 times more of UltrasParc III, which has great competitiveness to Intel, IBM, AMD, and other company products. The new generation of Ultrasparc IV processors uses 90 nm technology technology of Texas Instruments, which will existing new technologies such as high-speed caching, functional and transfer prediction mechanism, enhanced prefetching capabilities and new types of computing power. The application throughput of the Ultrasparc IV processor has doubled. In addition, the Ultrasparc IV processor will also combine a new 3-level cache layer with a 2MB secondary cache on a fast piece and a large 32MB-external three-level cache. These new features are also combined with higher operating frequencies (starting to 1.8 GHz), so that UltrasParc IV has higher throughput than previous UltraSPARC processors, approximately each thread performance of the Ultrasparc IV processor. double. The UltrasParc IV processor uses a white multi-threaded technology (CMT), while performing the SUN throughput calculation strategy while continuing to further improve the performance of the system. At the same time, there is a new set of RAS (random access memory) that makes this new design as the most reliable member in the Ultrasparc series processor. Like the UltrasParc IV processor, the second-generation UltraSPARC IV processor still maintains the traditional binary compatibility characteristics of Sun system, so that customers have investment in development tools and applications. Sun also provided her customers with a simple way to make their system performance and reliability double upgrades, the area of the system constant, the power supply and hot packaging have only small changes. Third, Sun Ultrasparc IV Server Product 1, entry-level server 1 Sun Fire V490 Sun Fire V490 server is a minimum technology cost of implementing Sun's corporate data center.
The V490 server uses high-density rack optimized 24-inch deep 5-Ru packaging design, maximum configurable 4 parallel execution 8 thread Ultrasparc IV CMT processors, and up to 32 GB of memory, only 5 racks Space of the unit. It uses the industry-leading Solaris operating system to give full play to multi-threaded / multiprocessor advantages to provide extremely high throughput, meet the needs of departmental and enterprise applications. By multithreading technology, each chip of the Ultrasparc IV processor can run two threads. The performance provided by the Sun Fire V490 server is twice that of the Sun Fire V480 server based on the UltrasParc III, and its footprint and shape are the same as the latter. Its main workload includes application services, business processing, database services, Web hosting / content interactions, and computational intensive engineering and scientific applications. 2 Sun Fire V890 Sun Fire V890 server provides enterprise-class computing power at low-end products, and it can configure 8 parallel implementation of 16 threads of UltraSPARC IV CMT processors, up to 64 GB of memory, for the most demanding sectors And enterprise applications provide excellent throughput rates. With the internal storage potential and standard network support close to 2 TB, the Sun Fire V890 server can perform IT operations below the price of the traditional data center server. 9.6GB of system bus, integrated I / O adapter, and 9 PCI slots ensure a highly scalable equalization system for application services, I / O intensive and computational intensive workloads. The SUN Fire V890 server is twice as the V880 server, providing more applications and services with less data center space for more users while providing existing applications and skill investment protection. The V890 server is the same as earlier models, providing comprehensive application support, extremely high RAS (reliability / availability / serviceability) and deployment of simpleness, but they also take a big step forward. The V890 platform is an ideal system for various applications, including application services, business processing, database services, collaboration, high performance technology computing (HPTC), and application development. 2, Mid-End Server 1 Sun Fire E2900 Server Sun Fire E2900 Server Provides enterprise-class availability and scalability at the price of entry-level systems. This high-performance rack optimization server can be upgraded to use 12 UltraSPARC IV processors that use simultaneous execution of two chip multi-threaded technology, up to 96 GB of memory, hot-swappable processor memory board, power supply and fan , Up to 6 PCI cards, is ideal for various computational intensive applications. The Sunfire E2900 server allows for mixing and managing UltrasParc IVs and UltraSPARC III processors running at their respective speeds, providing advanced features, such as hot plug-in processors / memory boards for use in application runtime. Dynamic reconfiguration to increase availability. This server can also request remote services to give support, and pre-install a wide range of applications with Java Enterprise System. This server is provided in accordance with Sun Customer Ready Systems, CRSs, integrating deployment-to-pending solutions for specific customers in the factory. 2 Sun Fire E4900 Server Sun Fire E4900 Server is a high-performance, high availability mid-range data center server that is ideal for key task data center environments.
Such a server can be upgraded to use 12 UltraSPARC IV processors that use simultaneous execution of 24 chip multi-threaded technologies that use simultaneously, can reach 192 GB of memory, up to 2 fault isolation domains, up to 16 PCI cards, need The highest performance and availability of large-scale departments database, decision support, customer relationship management, and high-performance support for high performance support. Provision of high availability is provided by fully hardware redundancy, fault isolation dynamic system domain, and dynamic reconfiguration for hot-swapping important server components when the application is running. 3 Sun Fire E6900 Server Sun Fire E6900 Server is a high availability mid-range server, which can be upgraded to use 24 UltraSPARC IV processors that use both chip multi-threading technologies that use simultaneous implementation of the 3 compute threads. Up to 192 GB of memory, up to 4 fault isolation domains, up to 32 PCI cards, facing large databases, data mining or server integration. This high-performance, high-availability server provides twice the computing power based on the current UltrasParc III, while the occupancy is unchanged and provides a lower overall ownership cost (TCO). This data center server is ideal for merge, data warehousing, decision support, and high performance technology computing applications. Provision of high availability is provided by fully hardware redundancy, fault isolation dynamic system domain, and dynamic reconfiguration for hot-swapping important server components when the application is running. 3, high-end server 1 Sun Fire E20K Sun Fire E20K server is a high-performance high-end server, which can be upgraded to use 36 UltraSPARC IV processors that use simultaneous execution of 72 chip multi-threading technologies that use simultaneous execution of threads. Average 288 GB of memory per domain, supports storage of 120 TB, up to 9 dynamic system domains; this very stable server is ideal for medium migration, merging, high performance technology computing, other key task applications. . Provision of high availability is provided by fully hardware redundancy, fault isolation dynamic system domain, and dynamic reconfiguration for hot-swapping important server components when the application is running. Allows the investment in the same system to be mixed and managed by the UltraSparc IV and UltrasParc III processors running at their respective speeds. This server can directly request remote services to give support, and pre-install a wide range of applications with Java Enterprise System. It also upgrades to the Sun Fire E25k server, using seamless upgrade route without interrupting service. 2 Sun Fire E25k SUN Fire E25K server significantly improves system performance, and also significantly reduces overall cost. Due to the UltrasParc IV processor and new HSPCI I / O components, 72 UltraSPARC IV double-threaded controls, single domains have more than 1/2 TB, support 120 TB or more storage, can reach 18 dynamic system domains; The computing power of the Sun Fire E25k server is almost twice as the previous Sun Fire 12K system, and the I / O throughput is larger, and the occupancy is unchanged. This allows customers to reduce their cost from many ways. For existing applications, customers can deploy or use fewer processors on smaller domain / servers, thereby reducing the previous cost, power supply, and cooling costs, and cost of support and maintenance. This also enables customers to increase applications without purchasing new capacity as usual. In addition, due to the computational power and the dynamic system domain, these servers are excellent equipment that combines mature, competitive systems or UltraSPARC II systems.
