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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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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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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.
59:, and servers based on it, were announced in December 2005. As later generations were introduced, the term "T series" was used to refer to the entire family of processors.
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T4 CPU instead of T3 CPU, with complete core redesign
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969:"Sun and Fujitsu to release 256-thread (M)onster"
109:The SPARC T3-series servers include the T3-1B, a
989:"Sun delivers first UltraSparc T2-based servers"
1079:Jean S. Bozman, Matthew Eastwood (April 2012),
102:In September 2010, Oracle announced a range of
1124:"Oracle's Sparc T4 prices mask improved value"
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1177:, Rice University, p. 22, archived from
1102:Timothy Prickett Morgan (27 September 2011),
1033:Timothy Prickett Morgan (27 September 2011),
55:The first generation T-series processor, the
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1171:COMP 422 Parallel Computing: An Introduction
117:6000 system. All other T3 based servers are
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909:"At last, Sun unveils UltraSPARC revival"
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1168:John Mellor-Crummey (14 January 2014),
929:"Sun cranks clocks on Sparc T2 and T2+"
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949:"Sun buffs Opteron, SPARC and Sun Ray"
149:small changes in mass storage capacity
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1104:"Oracle rises for Unix server push"
1202:Kevin McLaughlin (26 March 2013),
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191:Partitioning and virtualization
967:Ashlee Vance (10 April 2007),
947:Ashlee Vance (13 April 2006),
1:
1738:SPARC microprocessor products
1262:SPARC T4 About page by Oracle
1699:Oracle Certification Program
987:Agam Shah (8 October 2007),
881:NIL (PCIE NVMe or SAN boot)
789:NIL (PCIE NVMe or SAN boot)
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374:SPARC Enterprise T5240
351:SPARC Enterprise T5220
325:SPARC Enterprise T5140
299:SPARC Enterprise T5120
403:4× UltraSPARC T2 Plus
380:2× UltraSPARC T2 Plus
1500:Programming languages
1267:SPARC M8-8 About page
1342:Héctor García-Molina
225:Processor frequency
146:doubled RAM capacity
1666:Computer appliances
1310:Corporate directors
1060:. 26 September 2011
1014:. 20 September 2010
1683:Big Data Appliance
1322:H. Raymond Bingham
1303:Oracle Corporation
406:1.2, 1.4 GHz
383:1.2, 1.4 GHz
360:1.2, 1.4 GHz
337:1.2, 1.4 GHz
333:UltraSPARC T2 Plus
311:1.2, 1.4 GHz
231:Max disk capacity
201:Solaris Containers
79:Sun Microsystems'
42:acquisition of Sun
38:Oracle Corporation
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1610:Operating systems
1571:Fusion Middleware
1371:Naomi O. Seligman
1352:Jeffrey O. Henley
1229:. 26 October 2015
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912:
872:8x SPARC M8
858:8× 2.5" SAS
849:4× SPARC M8
835:6× 2.5" SAS
826:2× SPARC M8
812:8× 2.5" SAS
803:1× SPARC M8
780:8x SPARC M7
766:8× 2.5" SAS
757:4× SPARC M7
734:2× SPARC M7
711:1× SPARC M7
697:8× 2.5" SAS
688:8× SPARC T5
674:8× 2.5" SAS
665:4× SPARC T5
651:6× 2.5" SAS
642:2× SPARC T5
628:2× 2.5" SAS
610:SPARC T5-1B
602:8× 2.5" SAS
579:6× 2.5" SAS
556:2× 2.5" SAS
547:1× SPARC T4
541:SPARC T4-1B
533:8× 2.5" SAS
507:8× 2.5" SAS
484:6× 2.5" SAS
461:2× 2.5" SAS
452:1× SPARC T3
446:SPARC T3-1B
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343:8× 2.5" SAS
317:8× 2.5" SAS
291:4× 2.5" SAS
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492:SPARC T3-4
469:SPARC T3-2
449:na (blade)
420:SPARC T3-1
392:April 2008
346:April 2008
271:March 2006
228:Max memory
1732:Categories
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1651:Enterprise
1564:Middleware
1530:JDeveloper
1415:JD Edwards
1395:PeopleSoft
1332:Safra Catz
1233:30 October
1064:25 January
891:References
878:8 TB
855:4 TB
832:2 TB
809:1 TB
40:after its
20:family of
1601:GlassFish
1591:Coherence
1581:SOA Suite
1576:WebCenter
1454:Databases
1357:Mark Hurd
884:Sep 2017
861:Sep 2017
838:Sep 2017
815:Sep 2017
792:Oct 2015
769:Oct 2015
746:Oct 2015
723:Oct 2015
700:Mar 2013
677:Mar 2013
654:Mar 2013
631:Mar 2013
605:Sep 2011
582:Sep 2011
559:Sep 2011
536:Sep 2011
510:Sep 2010
487:Sep 2010
464:Sep 2010
441:Sep 2010
415:Oct 2008
115:Sun Blade
50:multicore
1717:Category
1647:T-Series
1638:Sun Fire
1540:NetBeans
1481:TimesTen
1440:NetSuite
1435:Sunopsis
1430:TimesTen
1420:RightNow
1400:Hyperion
1188:21 March
1153:27 March
618:SPARC T5
599:1024 GB
523:SPARC T4
428:SPARC T3
265:2× 2.5"
259:1× 3.5"
182:SPARC M8
173:SPARC M7
166:SPARC T5
160:SPARC T5
154:SPARC T5
137:SPARC T4
131:SPARC T4
125:SPARC T4
104:SPARC T3
98:SPARC T3
92:SPARC T3
81:Sun Fire
30:SPARC V9
1491:Essbase
625:256 GB
576:512 GB
553:256 GB
530:256 GB
504:512 GB
481:256 GB
458:128 GB
435:128 GB
409:512 GB
386:256 GB
363:128 GB
340:128 GB
314:128 GB
235:GA date
207:Servers
1596:Tuxedo
1512:PL/SQL
1471:InnoDB
1445:Cerner
1405:Siebel
288:64 GB
256:32 GB
214:Model
1643:SPARC
1535:Forms
1466:MySQL
1182:(PDF)
1175:(PDF)
1086:(PDF)
786:8 TB
763:4 TB
740:2 TB
717:1 TB
694:4 TB
671:2 TB
648:1 TB
1545:Apex
1522:IDEs
1507:Java
1381:list
1235:2015
1190:2014
1155:2013
1066:2012
1020:2010
261:SATA
83:and
22:RISC
16:The
1486:Rdb
1410:BEA
1390:Sun
1209:CRN
1090:IDC
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426:1×
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