Enterprise Servers [3456]000
Ultra Enterprise Servers
For speeds/feeds above 250MHz, checkout the X500 url
Introducing the new Ultra(TM) Enterprise(TM) X000 Server family, the
industry's broadest, most scalable server line, offering systems that
scale from the department to the datacenter. The Ultra X000 Enterprise
servers feature 167-MHz UltraSPARC(TM) processors, the Gigaplane(TM)
system bus, streamlined memory architecture, scalability to 30 CPUs, 30
GB of memory, 30 I/O channels, and over 10 TB of storage, redundant
power and cooling, hot swap components and the Solstice(TM) SyMON(TM)
system monitoring tool.
Ultra Enterprise 3000 Server
The Enterprise 3000 is an affordable entry-level departmental system
that offers unprecedented power and reliability. It has four system
board slots and supports
- Up to six UltraSPARC(TM) processors
- Up to 6 GB of main memory
- Over 2 TB of external storage
- Ten internal hot-swap disk drives, for 42 GB of storage
Ultra Enterprise 4000 Server
The Enterprise 4000 is a versatile departmental server with exceptional
value and scalability. It has eight system board slots and supports:
- Up to 14 UltraSPARC(TM) processors
- Up to 14 GB of main memory
- Over 4 TB of external storage
Ultra Enterprise 5000 Server
The Enterprise 5000 is a scalable and reliable rack mount data
center server for mission-critical applications. It has eight system board
slots and supports:
- Up to 14 UltraSPARC(TM) processors
- Up to 14 GB of main memory
- Over 4 TB of external storage
Ultra Enterprise 6000 Server
The Enterprise 6000 is a rack mount data center
server that has leading scalability and performance
for large-scale, mission-critical applications. It
offers twice the CPU and memory expandability of the
Enterprise 5000 and delivers the highest level of
compute and I/O performance in the Enterprise family
of servers. The Enterprise 6000 has 16 system board
slots and supports:
- Up to 30 UltraSPARC processors
- Up to 30 GB of memory
- Over 10 TB of external storage
Gigaplane
2.6GB/sec -- 2.5GB sustained
This is calculated taking 83MHz * 128bit bus
Common Components
INVESTMENT PROTECTION
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The Ultra Enterprise servers offer investment protection in the
following ways:
- Common system components (UltraSPARC processors, system boards,
memory SIMMS, Clock Board, and power supplies) allow customers to
upgrade from the Enterprise 3000 or 4000 servers by simply moving
all major system components to the Enterprise 5000 or 6000 servers.
- Common system components also allow customers to redistribute
capacity across different servers to ensure efficient utilization of
computing resources.
- A modular system design enables customers to easily upgrade to new,
higher-performance processor, networking, disk, and tape storage
options over the next several years.
- 100-percent binary compatibility with existing SPARC(TM) applications
protects the application investments of the current installed base.
Processors
Initially introduced with 167MHz 1/2MB modules
Later upgraded to 167MHz 1MB modules
In January of 97 Blackbird or 250MHz 1MB UltraSPARC-II's were announced
In April of 97 Blackbird or 250MHz 4MB UltraSPARC-II's were announced
In March of 98 336MHz 4MB UltraSPARC-II's were announced
You can not mix and match processors speeds but you can
have different cache sizes as long as they are on the same board. This
really only applies to the 250MHz processors since we had 1 and 4MB
versions of that chip on the x000 series.
RAS Features
Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
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Hot Swap: All boards, except the Clock Board and Disk
Board, are hot swappable. Power supplies are
hot swappable (except the first Peripheral
Power Supply of the Enterprise 3000).
Boards: System boards have fewer components and half
the silicon of the previous generation of
servers.
Operation: ECC- or parity-protection on all buses. POST
and ASR to configure around faulty components, as in
the previous generation.
Solstice SyMON: An integrated system monitor that can predict
many common failures before they occur, so that
components can be replaced before they fail.
Power
The systems can have multiple 300 watt-power supplies. These
power supplies, which are called Power/Cooling Modules or PCMs,
provide power to the system boards. Each PCM is actually a a power
supply with fan assembly, that contains two fans to provide cooling
to the boards. Each system contains a minimum of one PCM for every
two adjacent boards on each side of the centerplane.
In the Enterprise 3000, there are four board slots and up to three
PCMs -- thus, N+1 power. In all other systems, a fully loaded
configuration can run on N-1 power supplies. For example, an
Enterprise 4000 has eight board slots and four PCMs. That
Enterprise 4000 can run on just three PCMs. The same is true for
the Enterprise 6000, except that it has eight PCMs for its maximum
16 system boards.
The current-sharing circuitry in these systems ensures that the
fans in a PCM continue running if the power supply in that unit
fails. In addition, there is redundant cooling. There are two dual
speed fans in each PCM. If one fan fails, the other can speed up
(as can others in the system based on system temperature) to
compensate.
System Board
There are four types of boards: a CPU/Memory Board, multiple I/O
Boards, Disk Boards and a Clock Board. The CPU/Memory Board holds
up to two UltraSPARC CPU modules, and up to two banks of memory.
Each memory bank consists of eight industry standard 3.3V JEDEC
SIMMs. Three SIMM sizes are currently supported: 8 MB based on
4-Mbit DRAM, 32 MB based on 16-Mbit DRAM and 128 MB based on
64-Mbit DRAM. Each bank can thus hold 64 MB, 256 MB or 1 GB
respectively. SIMM sizes cannot be mixed within a bank. However,
mixing different memory sizes within a system is supported. The
Enterprise X000 servers support up to 16-way memory interleaving.
There are two types of I/O boards: the SBus I/O Board and the
Graphics I/O Board. The SBus board houses two separate SBuses.
One SBus supports one empty SBus slot and two Fibre Channel
connections for SPARCstorage Arrays. The other SBus supports two
empty SBus slots, a 10/100-Mb/sec. Ethernet interface, and a
Fast/Wide SCSI interface.
The Graphics I/O Board has a single SBus supporting two empty SBus
slots, two Fibre Channel interfaces, 10/100-Mb/sec. Ethernet and
Fast/Wide SCSI interface. The remaining I/O slot on this board is
a UPA slot designed for connecting the Creator and Creator 3D
graphics.
The Clock Board provides a single clock source from which both the
system clock and processor clock are derived. The frequency of the
clock source, the processor clock and the system clock are all
programmable via firmware. The Clock Board is included in the
Server Base Package.
All boards, except the Disk Board, are interchangeable among all
four Ultra Enterprise system models.
SPEC Info for 6 processor E3000 167MHz 1/2MB modules
3000 SPECrate_int92 33,919
3000 SPECrate_fp92 47,244
3000 Estimated tpm 6,900
SPEC Info for 14 processor E4000 167MHz 1/2MB modules
4000 SPECrate_int92 75,000
4000 SPECrate_fp92 105,000
4000 Estimated tpm 11,400 (12 processors)
SPEC Info for 14 processor E5000 167MHz 1/2MB modules
5000 SPECrate_int92 75,000
5000 SPECrate_fp92 105,000
5000 Estimated tpm 11,400 (12 processors)
SPEC Info for 30 processor E6000 167MHz 1/2MB modules
6000 SPECrate_int92 158,000
6000 SPECrate_fp92 196,000
6000 Estimated tpm 17,000
Percent Improvement
167 MHz/1 MB 250 MHz/1 MB Improvement
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SPECint95 1 CPU 6.60 9.74 47.6
SPECint_rate95 1 CPU 59 84 42.4
6 CPU 336 505 50.3
12 CPU 660 1,007 52.6
24 CPU 1,296 1,942 49.9
30 CPU 1,636 2,317 41.6
167 MHz/1 MB 250 MHz/1 MB Improvement
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SPECfp95 1 CPU 9.37 11.7 24.9
SPECfp_rate95 1 CPU 83 104 25.3
6 CPU 469 584 24.5
12 CPU 887 1,073 21.0
24 CPU 1,497 1,656 10.6
30 CPU 1,660 1,782 7.4
167 MHz/1 MB 250 MHz/1 MB Improvement
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Linpack DP 1000 1 CPU 229.6 321.8 40.2
(MFLOPS) 6 CPU 754.1 1,646 118.3
12 CPU 1,141 2,951 158.6
24 CPU 1,126 4,505 300.1
30 CPU 1,097 4,755 333.5
167 MHz/1 MB 250 MHz/1 MB Improvement
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Linpack DP TPP 1 CPU N/A 387.3 N/A
(MFLOPS) 6 CPU 1,208 2,283 89.0
12 CPU 2,242 4,509 101.1
24 CPU 4,001 8,769 119.2
30 CPU 4,521 10,760 138.0
167 MHz/1 MB 250 MHz/1 MB Improvement
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LADDIS 2 CPU 3,749 @ 25.2 4,205 @ 22.1 12.2
(NFSops/s @ ms/op) 4 CPU 6,468 @ 19.6 7,403 @ 24.7 14.5
6 CPU (D) 8,559 @ 19.2 8,368 @ 20.6 -3.2
6 CPU (C,S) N/A 9,673 @ 15.1 N/A
8 CPU 11,522 @ 23.4 12,796 @ 20.7 11.1
10 CPU (C) 13,778 @ 22.9 14,509 @ 17.4 5.3
10 CPU (S) N/A 15,710 @ 23.4 N/A
12 CPU (C) 15,674 @ 21.1 15,247 @ 27.9 -2.7
12 CPU (S) N/A 17,737 @ 23.0 N/A
20 CPU 21,623 @ 23.3 24,156 @ 22.3 11.7
24 CPU 23,076 @ 22.5 24,477 @ 20.4 6.1
Code explanation: D = Enterprise 3000
C = Enterprise 4000 and 5000
S = Enterprise 6000
NOTES:
Some LADDIS results are specific for a given server model.
The SBus slot limitation in smaller systems causes a networking
bottleneck that restricts the performance in some configurations.
Percent
250 MHz/1 MB 250 MHz/4 MB Improvement
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SPECint95 1 CPU 9.74 10.4 7
SPECint_rate95 1 CPU 84 93.9 12
6 CPU 505 556 10
12 CPU 1007 1096 9
24 CPU N/A 2171 -
30 CPU 2317 2630 14
SPECfp95 1 CPU 11.7 15.0 28
SPECfp_rate95 1 CPU 104 135 30
6 CPU 584 745 28
12 CPU 1073 1436 34
24 CPU N/A 2340 -
30 CPU 1782 2580 45
LADDIS 2 CPU 4205 @ 22.1 4718 @ 26.6 12
(NFSops/s @ ms/op) 4 CPU 7403 @ 24.7 7808 @ 23.0 5
(C) 6 CPU 9673 @ 15.1 10976 @ 24.9 13
8 CPU 12796 @ 20.7 13982 @ 26.0 9
(S) 10 CPU 15710 @ 23.4 16939 @ 24.3 8
(S) 12 CPU 17737 @ 23.0 19469 @ 22.8 10
16 CPU 21483 @ 21.0 23185 @ 23.8 8
20 CPU 24156 @ 22.3 26012 @ 17.2 8
24 CPU 24477 @ 20.4 27862 @ 17.9 14
Code explanation:
C=Enterprise 4000/Enterprise 5000
S=Enterprise 6000