Oracle Launches New 4th and 8th Socket Systems
Oracle has launched new 4th and 8th socket systems based on Intel's Xeon E7-8895 v2 processor. The new Sun Server X4-4 and Sun Server X4-8 offer unique computational elasticity functions at the hardware level, which allows the customer to configure dynamic optimization according to the number of cores used or the kernel load in order to achieve optimal performance.
Working closely with Intel has enabled Oracle to be the first to get a new Xeon E7-8895 v2 processor for its systems and to ensure maximum compatibility with Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux operating systems. Sun Server X4-4 was developed primarily for business intelligence and analytical tasks, as well as server consolidation, which makes these systems an ideal platform for VDS / VPS, as well as for applications that perform analytical tasks online. Sun Server X4-8 was noted as the best option for the Oracle Database In-Memory option and vertical scaling. Sun X4-8 supports PCI flash memory up to 6TV, which will significantly speed up database performance due to caching. Almost any application that works with a top-level database can work faster with the Database In-Memory option enabled.
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The processor Xeon E7-8895 v2 was not chosen by chance. It features the Glueless architecture developed by Intel.
For communication between I / O devices, network interfaces and processors, a specially designed QPI bus is used. In servers with 4 processors, they all connect to each other directly via this bus.
In an 8-processor server, each processor is directly connected to the three neighbors, and through one of them to the other four.
The main advantages of this architecture is that absolutely any manufacturer can produce 8-processor servers. There is no need for special development from the manufacturer, due to which the cost for 4- and 8-socket servers is reduced.
Sun Server X4-4
Sun Server X4-8
Working closely with Intel has enabled Oracle to be the first to get a new Xeon E7-8895 v2 processor for its systems and to ensure maximum compatibility with Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux operating systems. Sun Server X4-4 was developed primarily for business intelligence and analytical tasks, as well as server consolidation, which makes these systems an ideal platform for VDS / VPS, as well as for applications that perform analytical tasks online. Sun Server X4-8 was noted as the best option for the Oracle Database In-Memory option and vertical scaling. Sun X4-8 supports PCI flash memory up to 6TV, which will significantly speed up database performance due to caching. Almost any application that works with a top-level database can work faster with the Database In-Memory option enabled.
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The processor Xeon E7-8895 v2 was not chosen by chance. It features the Glueless architecture developed by Intel.
For communication between I / O devices, network interfaces and processors, a specially designed QPI bus is used. In servers with 4 processors, they all connect to each other directly via this bus.
In an 8-processor server, each processor is directly connected to the three neighbors, and through one of them to the other four.
The main advantages of this architecture is that absolutely any manufacturer can produce 8-processor servers. There is no need for special development from the manufacturer, due to which the cost for 4- and 8-socket servers is reduced.
What do we get in the end?
Sun Server X4-4
Sun Server X4-8
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/231599/
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