About the Oracle SPARC T8-4 Server

Oracle’s SPARCT8 servers are the world’s most advanced systems for enterprise workloads. They deliver significantly faster performance for databases and Java applications compared with competitors’ systems1 . Oracle’s Software in Silicon technology accelerates Oracle Database In-Memory queries and enables real-time analytics. Security in Silicon provides full-speed wide-key encryption, plus protection to data in memory. This is the foundation for building the best and most secure mission-critical cloud infrastructure.

• Processor
• •Thirty-two core, 5.0 GHz SPARC M8 processor
• •Up to 256 threads per processor (up to 8 threads per core)
• •Eight Data Analytics Accelerator units per processor, each supporting four concurrent in-memory analytics engines with decompression
• •Thirty-two on-chip encryption instruction accelerators (one per core) with direct non-privileged support for 16 industry-standard cryptographic algorithms: AES, Camellia, CRC32c, DES, 3DES, DH, DSA, ECC, MD5, RSA, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-3, SHA-384, and SHA-512
• •Thirty-two floating-point units and thirty-two Oracle Numbers units per processor (one per core)
• •One random number generator (one per processor)
• Cache Per Processor
• •Level 1: 32 KB instruction and 16 KB data per core
• •Level 2: 256 KB L2 I$ per four cores, 128 KB L2 D$ per core
• •Level 3: 64 MB L3$ on chip
• System Configurations
• •SPARC T8-4 servers may be configured with either two or four SPARC M8 processors; upgradeable from two to four processors
• •Sixteen dual inline memory module (DIMM) slots per processor supporting half and fully populated memory configurations using 32 or 64 GB DDR4 DIMMs
  •     ○4 TB maximum memory configuration with a four-processor system and 64 GB DIMMs
  •     ○2 TB maximum memory configuration with a two-processor system and 64 GB DIMMs
  • System Architecture
  • •SPARC V9 architecture, ECC protected
  • Inetrfaces
  • •Network: Four 10 GbE (100 Mb/sec, 1 Gb/sec, 10 Gb/sec) ports, full duplex only, auto-negotiating
  • •Expansion bus: Sixteen low-profile PCIe 3.0 slots, each accessed via a hot-pluggable carrier (eight x8 and eight x16 slots)
  • •Ports: Four external USB 3.0 (two front, two rear), one RJ45 serial management port, console 100 Mb/1 Gb network port, two VGA ports (one front, one rear)
  • Internal Storage
  • •Up to eight 600 GB or 1,200 GB 2.5-inch SAS drives
  • •Optional external DVD unit available
  • •Optional internal storage may be installed within the standard drive bays
  •     ○800 GB solid-state drives (SSDs), maximum of eight
  •     ○6.4 TB NVMe drives, maximum of eight
  • • • Power Supplies
      • •Four hot-swappable AC 3,000 W redundant (2 + 2) power supplies
      • •Voltage 200 to 240 VAC, frequency 50/60 Hz
      • •Maximum operating input current at 200 VAC: 16 A per cord
      • •Maximum operating input power at 200 VAC: 5,040 W
      • Key Ras Features
  • •Hot-plug disk drives
  • •Hot-pluggable PCIe card carriers
  • •Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans
  • •Environmental monitoring
  • •Extended memory protection with error correction within single SDRAM, triple-bit detection across SDRAMs, page retirement, memory scrubbing, cyclic redundancy check (CRC), message retry, and lane retire in hardware
  • •DIMM sparing enabled with fully populated memory slots, increasing system reliability and uptime
  • •System Interconnect: message retry, link retrain, and lane failover
  • •Integrated disk controller with RAID 0, 1, and 1E/10
  • •Fault Management Architecture and Predictive Self Healing
  • •Live operating system upgrades
  • •Firmware updates during system operation
  • •Multiple PCIe root complexes for isolated I/O virtualization
  • Operating System
  • Oracle recommends the latest version of Oracle Solaris 11.3 for enhanced performance and functionality, including features enabled by Software in Silicon technology.
  • •Control domain: Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 24 or later
  • •The following versions are supported within guest domains:
    •     ○Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 24 or later
      •     ○Oracle Solaris 10 1/13*
        •     *Plus required patches
  • Virtualization
  • Built-in, no-cost Oracle VM Server for SPARC provides the flexibility and power for running multiple logical domains in a single server. Multiple Oracle Solaris Zones may be run within a single Oracle VM Server for SPARC logical domain.
  • Dimensions
  • •Height: 266.7 mm (10.5 in.); 6U
  • •Width: 445 mm (17.5 in.)
  • •Depth: 835 mm (32.9 in.)