Sun Microsystems T5120 manual

SUN SP ARC ® ENTERPRISE T5120 AND T5220 SER VER ARCHITECTURE Unleashing the Ultr aSP ARC ® T2 Processor with CoolThr eads ™ T echnology White P aper October 2007[...]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. T abl e of Contents Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Evolution of Chip Multithreading (CMT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Business Challenges for Web 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

Executive Summary Sun Microsystems, Inc. Executive Summary Use of the Web is c hanging in fundamental ways , driven by Web 2.0 applications and the thousands of people who join the global Internet every da y through a prolifer ation of new inter active devices. The char acter of applications and services is changing too . Increasingl y , user'[...]

2 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 1 T he E volution of Chip Multithr eading (CMT) By any measure , Sun’s first - generation CM T processors were an unpr ecedented success. Sun Fire ™ / Sun SP ARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 servers based on the Ultr aSPARC T1 processor with CoolThr eads tec[...]

3 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Driving Datacenter Virtualization and Eco-Efficiency Coincident with the need to scale services , many datacenters ar e recognizing the advantages of deploying f ewer standard platf orms to run a mixture of commercial and technical work loads. This process involves[...]

4 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. estate to build incr easingly complex pr ocessors, with instruction- le vel parallelism (ILP) as a goal. T oday these traditional pr ocessors employ very high frequencies along with a variety of sophisticated tactics t o accelerate a single instruction pipeline , inclu[...]

5 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. a result, while these designs pr ovide some additional throughput and scalability , they can consume considerabl e power and generate significant heat — without a commensura te increase in overall performance. Chip Multithreading (CM T ) with CoolT hreads ™ T echn[...]

6 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chip multithreading pr ovides real val ue since it increases the ability of the ex ecution pipeline to do actual work on any given c lock cycl e. Utilization of the processor pipeline is greatl y enhanced since a number of ex ecution threads now share its r esources. T[...]

7 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. predecessors , while leading competitors in terms of performance , per formance per watt, and SWaP performance (as eval uated by the Space, W atts, and P erformance metric detailed later in this section). These systems also e xtend the benefits of CMT from multithr ea[...]

8 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. Designed to complement eac h other , as well as the rest of Sun’s server product line, the Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers address the dynamic needs of the modern datacenter . • Efficient and Predictable Scalability With support for 64 threads and lar[...]

9 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. • A Tradition of Leading Eco Efficiency Sun Fire / Sun SP ARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 server s were the industry's first eco- r esponsible servers. Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers continue this tradition b y offering the best performance and pe[...]

10 Th e E vo l u ti on o f Chi p M u ltith rea di ng (CMT) Sun Microsystems, Inc. Space, W atts, and P erf ormance: Intr oducing the SW aP Metric Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers deliver leading performance across a range of multithr eaded workloads and benchmarks. Howe ver , with energy and real estate costs and pressur es, it is not [...]

11 Th e Ult ra SP ARC T 2 P rocessor w ith C oo lTh rea d s T ec h no l ogy Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 2 T he Ultr aSP ARC T2 Pr ocessor with CoolT hr eads T echnology The UltraSP ARC T2 processor is the industry’s fir st system on a chip (SoC), supplying the most cores and thr eads of any general-purpose processor av ailable, and integra ti[...]

12 Th e Ult ra SP ARC T 2 P rocessor w ith C oo lTh rea d s T ec h no l ogy Sun Microsystems, Inc. T able 2 pr ovides a comparison between the UltraSP ARC T2 and the Ultr aSPARC T1 processor . T able 2. UltraSP ARC T1 and T2 processor fea tures T aking Chip Multithr eaded Design to the Next Le vel When Sun’s in-house design team set out to design[...]

13 Th e Ult ra SP ARC T 2 P rocessor w ith C oo lTh rea d s T ec h no l ogy Sun Microsystems, Inc. simply incr easing the number of cores would have gained additional thr oughput, but would have r esulted in consuming extra die ar ea, leaving no room f or integrated components such as floating point pr ocessors. The final UltraSP ARC T2 processor[...]

14 Th e Ult ra SP ARC T 2 P rocessor w ith C oo lTh rea d s T ec h no l ogy Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ultr aSP ARC T2 Processor Architectur e The UltraSP ARC T2 processor e xtends Sun’s Throughput Computing initiative with an elegant and robust ar chitecture that delivers r eal performance to applications. A high- level bloc k diagram of the Ultr aS[...]

15 Th e Ult ra SP ARC T 2 P rocessor w ith C oo lTh rea d s T ec h no l ogy Sun Microsystems, Inc. 3DES, AES, RC4, SHA- 1, SHA-256, MD5, RSA to 2048 k ey , ECC, and CRC32. Embedding hardwar e cryptographic acceler ation for these ciphers allows end-to- end encryption with no penalty in either performance or cost. UltraSP ARC T2 Core Architectur e a[...]

16 Th e Ult ra SP ARC T 2 P rocessor w ith C oo lTh rea d s T ec h no l ogy Sun Microsystems, Inc. An eight - stage integer pipeline and a 12- stage floating-point pipeline ar e provided by each Ultr aSP ARC processor core (Figur e 7). A new “pick” pipeline stage has been added to choose tw o threads (out of the eight possible per core) t o ex[...]

17 Th e Ult ra SP ARC T 2 P rocessor w ith C oo lTh rea d s T ec h no l ogy Sun Microsystems, Inc. Integra ted Networking By providing integr ated on- chip networking, the UltraSP ARC T2 pr ocessor is able to provide better networking performance. All netw ork data is supplied directly fr om and to main memory . Placing networking so close to memor[...]

18 Th e Ult ra SP ARC T 2 P rocessor w ith C oo lTh rea d s T ec h no l ogy Sun Microsystems, Inc. Power Management Beyond the inherent e fficiencies of CMT design, the Ultr aSPARC T2 is the fir st processor to incorpor ate unique power management features a t both the core and memory le vels of the processor . These featur es include r educed in[...]

19 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 3 Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architectur e Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers have been designed t o provide breakthr ough per formance while ma ximizing reliability and minimizing power consumption and comple xity[...]

20 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. The motherboard inter connect for these systems has been grea tly simplified. 12-volt power is distributed to the motherboar d through a pair of metal bus bars, connected t o a Power Distribution Boar d (PDB). A single flex - circuit connector r out[...]

21 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Fan boar ds provide connections for po wer and control for both the primary and secondary fans in the front of the c hassis. No cables are requir ed since every dual fan module plugs dir ectly into one of these PCBs which, in turn, pl ugs into the[...]

22 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. The Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5120 server incl udes the following major components: • An UltraSP ARC T2 processor with four , six, or eight cores at speeds of 1.2 or 1.4 GHz • Up to 64 GB of memory in 16 Fully Buf fered Dual Inline Memory Module (FBD[...]

23 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. • A DB -9 TT Y A serial port is provided for serial de vices (not connected to the ILOM system controller serial port). • A total of three PCI E xpress card slo ts are provided, two of whic h can alternately support XAUI cards connected to the Ult[...]

24 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. Front and R ear Per spectives Figure 11 ill ustrates the front and bac k panels of the Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5220 server . Figure 11. Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5220 server , front and rear panels External fea tures of the Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5220 ser[...]

25 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. S y stem Management T echnology As the number of systems grow in any organiz ation, the complexities of managing the infrastructur e throughout its lifecycl e becomes increasingly dif ficult. Effective system management requir es both integrated har [...]

26 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Management Center Softwar e Sun Management Center softwar e is an element management system for monitoring and managing the Sun envir onment. Sun Management Center software integr ates with the leading enterprise management systems to pr ovide cus[...]

27 S un SP ARC E n t erpr i se T 5120 an d T 5220 S erver A rc hit ec t ure Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Monitor When systems are up and running, administr ators can use Sun N1 S ystem Manager to monitor system health, helping t o ensure that everything is running at the optimal le vels. The software pr ovides detailed hardwar e monitoring for attrib[...]

28 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 4 Enterprise- Class Softwar e New tec hnology often requires time f or tools and applications to arrive, and delivering agile and highly-availabl e services that take advantage of a vailable resour ces requires stable development t ools, operating s ystems, middlewar e and manage[...]

29 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Support for Virtualized Networking and I/O, and Accelerated Cryptography The Solaris OS contains technology to support and virtualize components and subsystems on the Ultr aSPARC T2 pr ocessor , inc luding suppor t for the on- c hip 10 Gb Ethernet ports and PCI Express interface. As [...]

30 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. single core , a task that would requir e additional software and consider able overhead in competing architectur e. Figure 12. Sun pr ovides parallelization and virtualization a t every level of the tec hnology stack Corr esponding layers of virtualization tec hnology are built on top of[...]

31 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. By taking advantage of Logical Domains , organizations gain the flexibility t o deploy multiple oper ating systems simultaneously on a single platf orm. In addition, administrat ors can lever age vir tual de vice capabilities to transport an entire softwar e stack hosted on a Logical Do[...]

32 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. Solaris ™ Containers Providing virtualization at the OS l evel, Solaris Containers consist of a gr oup of technologies that w ork together to efficientl y manage system resources , vir tualize the envir onment, and provide a complete, isola ted, and secure runtime environment f or app[...]

33 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. the activities of the diagnostic system. With Solaris F ault Manager , the overall time from a fault condition, to aut omated diagnosis, to any necessary human intervention is greatl y reduced, increasing applica tion uptime. • Solaris Service Manager The Solaris Service Manager facili[...]

34 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. Application Selection Application selection helps identify those applications tha t stand to benefit from CoolThr eads technology . The CoolThreads Selection Tool (coolst) helps determine application suitability for both the Ultr aSP ARC T1 and ULtraSP ARC T2 ar chitectures, acceler ati[...]

35 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Corestat — Cor estat provides an on- line monitoring t ool for core utilization of the UltraSP ARC T2 processor , providing a more accur ate measure of processor and system utilization than t ools that only measure the utiliz ation of individual threads. Implemented as a P erl scri[...]

36 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. administration utilities and it doesn’t mak e sense for them to assemble and integr ate traditional middl eware this wa y either . The Sun Jav a Enterprise System 5 (Jav a JES 5) provides a complete set of infr astructure softwar e that is integrated to w ork as a whole, and that off e[...]

37 E n t erpr i se- Cl ass S o ft ware Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Web Server — As the leading enterprise Web server , Sun Jav a System W eb Server is engineered to meet the stringent r equirements of organiz ations that use Web technologies as a competitive adv antage • Web Proxy —The Sun Jav a System W eb Proxy Server is a powerful system fo[...]

38 C onc l us i on Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chapter 5 Conc lusion Delivering on the demands of W eb 2.0 applications and vir tualiz ed, eco - efficient data centers requir es a comprehensive approac h that includes innov ative processors , system platforms , and operating systems , along with leading application, middlewar e, and management technolo[...]

39 C onc l us i on Sun Microsystems, Inc. T able 5. Rela ted Websites Web Site URL Description sun.com/ coolthreads Sun SP ARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers sun.com/ processors/UltraSP ARC- T2 Sun UltraSP ARC T2 Processor opensparc.net/ opensparc-t2 OpenSP ARC T2 sun.com/ processors/throughput Throughput Computing sun.com/ servers/ coolthreads[...]

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture On the Web sun.com/coolthreads Sun Microsys tems, Inc. 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clar a, CA 95054 USA Phone 1- 650- 960-1300 or 1 - 800- 555-9SUN (9786) We b sun.com © 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights r eserved. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, CoolThreads , Java, J2EE, N1, Solari[...]