Solaris 10 Now Available for AMD's New Dual-Core Opteron Platform
Most Advanced Operating System on the Planet for Multi-Core Systems
NEW YORK and SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun
Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced its award-winning Solaris
10(TM) Operating System (OS) supports servers based on the new
industry-standard Dual-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor, including the recently
unveiled Sun Fire(TM) V40z server powered by AMD64 dual-core technology.
Leveraging more than 20 years of Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) expertise,
Sun has been able to tune the Solaris 10 OS and optimize it for the AMD64
platform to deliver near linear scalability.
"Solaris 10 is the operating system that can unleash the power and
capability of systems based on AMD's new dual-core Opteron processors," said
Tom Goguen, vice president of product marketing, Operating Platforms Group at
Sun. "Solaris 10 and Opteron have already aced a number of performance
benchmarks and are proving to be an exceptionally powerful combination."
Solaris 10 offers a wide range of functionality specifically designed to
take advantage of multi-core AMD64 and SPARC(R) systems, including:
-- Multi-Core Platform Support: Customers can be assured that all of the
Solaris 10 OS features are fully supported on multi-core systems and
that many of the most popular features have been specifically
engineered to take advantage of multi-core systems. For example,
Solaris Containers can allow for finer-grain resource management at the
core level. Additionally, the Predictive Self-Healing functionality in
Solaris 10 OS can automatically detect failing cores, and take them
offline, without taking the entire CPU offline or affecting application
availability.
-- Memory Placement Optimization: Originally implemented in 1998 for
UltraSPARC(R) servers, Memory Placement Optimization is now supported
on AMD64-based systems, improving overall performance on systems with
multiple dual-core CPUs.
-- Application Compatibility Guarantee: All software applications that
run on Solaris today stand to benefit from the underlying multi-core
functionality and enhancements in the Solaris 10 OS -- without any
modification or recompilation. There are over 185 open source
applications such as Apache, TomCat, Samba and MySQL that are
pre-compiled, pre-tested and shipped ready to run on Solaris 10 on
SPARC, AMD64 and Intel platforms and more than 1,000 applications
certified to run on Solaris 10.
-- Record Breaking Performance: To date, Solaris 10 has achieved more
than 14 record-setting benchmarks on AMD64 and SPARC hardware, four of
which were based on multi-core systems. For more information, please
reference: http://sun.com/solaris/benchmarks.
"The arrival of multi-core gives Opteron(TM) processor-based systems a
path to ever escalating performance gains," said Gordon Haff, Senior Analyst
and IT Advisor, Illuminata, Inc. "Add the innovative new features available
in Solaris 10 -- such as DTrace and Solaris Containers -- and you have a very
nicely performing and feature-rich option for enterprise customers."
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that
make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Fire, Solaris and The
Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC
trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks
of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by
Sun Microsystems, Inc. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, the AMD Opteron logo are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(408) 404-4976
[email protected]
Jessica Bookach
Citigate Cunningham for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(201) 499-3581
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http://www.sun.com/news
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