Sun Fire 3800 (more details)

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A powerful member of Sun's UltraSPARC III family of binary-compatible, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers, the Sun Fire 3800 system addresses the crucial data center requirement for continuous availability. The compact, highly available Sun Fire 3800 server makes an ideal system for email, Web hosting, business applications, and high-performance compute farms. Featuring the redundantly configurable Sun Fireplane Interconnect, this server delivers impressive total system performance. Full hardware redundancy and a variety of advanced mainframe-class availability features, such as Hot CPU Upgrades* and Dynamic Reconfiguration*, provide for high availability. With Solaris Resource Manager and Dynamic System Domains*, this server has the flexibility to accommodate changing resource requirements across multiple applications. The Sun Fire 3800 system fits into industry standard 19-inch racks, providing the compute density today's data centers require. 

*These features will be available late in 2001.

Highlights

• Key Applications:
  Internet/intranet services, business intelligence (BI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), email, web hosting, compute services, and business applications.
  
  
• Key Specifications:
  From two to eight UltraSPARC III processors, up to 64 GB of memory, 12 cPCI cards, and one or two Dynamic System Domains. The system offers mainframe-class availability features, including full hardware redundancy, concurrent maintenance, online upgrades and Hot CPU Upgrades. Additionally, this system offers mainframe-class resource management with fully fault isolated Dynamic System Domains. The high performance system interconnect, the Sun Fireplane Interconnect, delivers aggregate bandwidth of 24 GB/sec. and sustained bandwidth and 9.6 GB/sec. The system can be mounted in an industry standard 19" rack or a Sun Fire Cabinet.
  
  
• Key Benefits:
  Continuous uptime from a compact, highly available data center server.
  
  
• Key Industries:
  General purpose server suitable for all industries. Ideal packaging and performance characteristics for email, web and database servers.
  
  
• Requirements 
  Solaris 8 4/01 Operating Environment, or later.