Oracle announced the 32 Cores 4.13Ghz #SPARC M7 Processor with Software in Silicon features and T7 and M7 Servers at Oracle OpenWorld.
You can find details in
Masood Heydari's Presentation at Oracle OpenWorld
Summary
We @JomaSoft recently
completed performance tests on Oracle’s SPARC T7 system running
Virtual Datacenter Control Framework (#VDCF), our management solution
for creating, migrating, patching and monitoring Oracle Solaris
environments. Our results showed VDCF to be 1.5x faster core-to-core
on SPARC T7 compared to SPARC T5. JomaSoft views Oracle’s powerful
SPARC M7 and T7 systems as ideal platforms for customer consolidation
and virtualization projects, with technology and value that no other
vendor can offer.
Technical details
We created
a 8GB / 1 core LDom on a SPARC T5 Server running Solaris 11.3 with all data stored on a
SAN Disk. Inside the LDom we installed
our VDCF application and loaded datacenter configuration into
the VDCF sqlite database. Next we executed datacenter analysis like
patch comparison, calculated migration possibilities and server
configuration consistency checks. The analysis are traditional single
thread workload.
After
the SPARC
T5 tests
we migrated our
LDom to the
new SPARC T7 Server. This allowed us to compare the systems
using the same Operating System, Setup and Data, to make sure we
compare “apple to apple”.
The results for our
workload showed a 1.5x faster performance on the SPARC T7 Server.
This workload did not use the Software In Silicon features, only
performed better because of the new CPU
architecture
(higher frequency, more and better CPU cache and memory).
The
Software In Silicon features can be used to optimize SQL and crypto
functions when running applications In-Memory on the Oracle Database
12c. Performance increase of 80x or more are possible.
