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product lines were based on early generations of CMT technology. The UltraSPARC T1 based Sun Fire T2000 and T1000 servers were launched in December 2005 and early 2006, respectively. They were later rebranded to match the name of the UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus based Sun SPARC Enterprise T5**0 servers.
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On October 26, 2015, Oracle announced a family of systems built on the 32-core, 256-thread SPARC M7 microprocessor. Unlike prior generations, both T- and M-series systems were introduced using the same processor. The M7 included the first generation of the Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX) engines.
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On September 18, 2017, Oracle announced a family of systems built on the 32-core, 256-thread SPARC M8 microprocessor at 5.0 GHz. It also included the second generation of Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX) engines.
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microprocessor, which the company claims is "the world's fastest". In the T5 range of servers, the single socket rackmount server design was deprecated, while a new eight-socket rackmount server was introduced.
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systems. Subsequent T-series server generations also include a blade server in the same Sun Blade 6000 form factor.
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processor based servers. These are branded as the "SPARC T3" series, the "SPARC Enterprise" brand being dropped.
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DAX engines offloaded in-memory query processing and performed real-time data decompression.
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design intended to drive greater processor utilization at lower power consumption.
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technology. Additional virtualization is provided by Oracle Solaris Zones (aka
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On March 26, 2013, Oracle announced refreshed SPARC servers based on the new
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SPARC T-series servers can be partitioned using Oracle's
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T4 CPU instead of T3 CPU, with complete core redesign
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Index

RISC
server computers
SPARC V9
Sun Microsystems
Oracle Corporation
acquisition of Sun
multithreading
multicore
UltraSPARC T1
UltraSPARC T1
UltraSPARC T2
Sun Fire
SPARC Enterprise
SPARC T3
SPARC T3
blade server
Sun Blade
rack mounted
SPARC T4
SPARC T4
SPARC T5
SPARC T5
Logical Domains
Solaris Containers
RU
GA date
UltraSPARC T1
SATA
SAS
UltraSPARC T2

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