Sun Solaris CMT and Virtualization Technology Analytics

Solaris 10: The core platform for the greatest operating system network computing

As more and more people join the network, Network computing requires more robust infrastructure to support the possibility of unlimited expansion while maintaining 24x7 operation. This requires a network computing platform with strong scalability, high availability, and security.

As one of the best operating systems in the IT industry, the Solaris OS, with innovative technologies such as dynamic tracing, precursor self-healing technology (predictive self-healing), and Solaris ZFS, has acquired the industry's highest Evaluation. Facts speak louder than words. The most advanced operating system has delivered more than 6 million licenses since its free, open Solaris 10 operating system (OS) was released in January 2005. That is, the number of licenses delivered by Solaris 10 has exceeded the total number of operating systems delivered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM AIX and Hewlett Packard HP-UX, and 97 companies in Fortune 100 and the Fortune 85% of the Fortune 500 companies are using Solaris 10 today. The Solaris 10 operating system has become the preferred platform for businesses around the world.

One of the major strategic advantages that Solaris offers to Sun's customers is that Solaris is provided free of charge through a cost-free licensing strategy and is fully open source through the OpenSolaris community. There are now more than 16,400 registered members of the opensolaris.org community, with recorded OpenSolaris downloading more than 33,800 times. The number of registered OpenSolaris Users group is up to 38, and so far the OpenSolaris community has donated about 220 codes.

Now, China, multi-industry ISVs, such as medical, financial, government, power and telecommunications, have developed a wide range of application systems, including large-capacity mail system passwords, MMS, e-government lobbies, financial autonomy services, power dispatch automation, logistics systems, collaborative manufacturing, medical information, Content management and so on, let each organization discover the real potential of new technology.

Chip multithreading (CMT) technology: to meet the requirements of the network times throughput demand to lead the flow of computational innovation

As with sun, more and more companies are starting to pay attention to the economics of computing power and green features. A study published by Sun in October 2006 showed that corporate management generally believed that data center efficiency was a priority consideration in IT system purchases. According to statistics, more than 20% of the cost of data centers is used for energy and cooling costs. For the dual benefits of environmental protection and economic development, Sun insists that the basic strategy of "environmental responsibility" will not change. Sun has made significant strides through industry projects, product development and workplace change initiatives. We see that the sun's global business development strategy is fully in line with the global green initiatives, while saving costs, while supporting a variety of environmentally friendly solutions.

In today's "age of Engagement", an average of 3 million people are joining the internet every week, contributing content, ideals, business opportunities, and innovative technologies to the Web. This situation, while creating huge business opportunities, requires greater throughput of network computing. At the same time, high energy costs, expensive real estate, hackers trying to break into the system to steal information, and government regulations require companies to ensure the security of data, these pressures on tens of thousands of customers suffer from low utilization, space occupation and energy consumption of the great pain.

In the face of the new environment and challenges of Network Computing, Network Computing has fully entered the era of throughput computing after the single processor and SMP technology. Sun believes that the processor architecture should be reformed to enable it to adapt adequately, and that the increase in computational performance should not be at the expense of high energy and space consumption; If you adopt a multithreaded architecture, the processor's structure can be simpler and the clock frequency is not too high, which can reduce the power consumption of the processor. Sun also believes that if more threads are processed in the same processor chip, the server size can be reduced significantly with the same computing task, thereby compressing the room space occupied by the server. Today, Sun's revolutionary "chip multithreading" technology is a sure way to solve these problems for customers ' data centers.

For Chip multithreading (CMT) technology and UltraSPARC T1 processor, the "Discover Magazine" August 2005 has a poetic description: This breakthrough chip using patented CoolThreads chip multithreading technology, And give full play to the world's most advanced operating system Solaris 10 multi-threaded features, the world's first "green economy" processor. Research shows that the performance of the UltraSPARC T1 processor can halve the number of Web servers worldwide and drastically reduce energy demand, which has the same effect as planting more than 1 million acres of trees to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Now, the high-speed server is no longer the whole of sun. At present, the company's focus is to provide consumers with savings in electricity consumption, the same spending to obtain more energy-processing technology. Following the UltraSPARC T1 processor, in January 2007, Sun continued to expand its leadership position in SOLARIS/SPARC chip multithreading (CMT) technology innovation, completing the tapeout of the "Rock" SPARC Processor (complete design delivery), and strengthen systems based on UltraSPARC T1 processors. This fully demonstrates Sun's continued leadership in Chip multithreading (CMT) technology and is committed to continuing the innovation of SPARC architecture.

The Rock processor is a product line of Sun's next-generation high-end SPARC chip multithreading (CMT) technology that focuses on making chip multithreading (CMT) technology deliver high performance and energy efficiency to high-end systems. This time, the rock processor's tapeout is the landmark of Sun's key research and development results, which will help sun company to continue to promote research and development, the second half of 2008, plans to launch the first batch based on the Rock processor system.

Chip multithreading (CMT) technology and the Solaris Operating system (OS) are the foundation of Sun's business today and the cornerstone of Sun's business tomorrow. Both complement each other, will enable customers to fully enjoy the great benefits of network computing. UltraSPARC T1 Chip makes Sun Company at the forefront of multi-core, multithreading technology competition, it makes SPARC products in the vast number of customers have a huge impact. Today, Sun will continue to invest in the technology innovation of Chip Multithreading (CMT), and is extending the chip multithreading (CMT) technology to high-end system through the rock processor, so that its entire product line absorbs chip multithreading (CMT) technology. Sun will be able to provide the most optimized platform for high-end applications based on Solaris, and will upgrade its price/performance in the entire data center area, bringing about fundamental changes in the industry.

In March 2007, Sun announced that the number of multi-threaded CPUs in its delivered sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers was over 1 million, and at the end of 2005, Sun released the chip multithreading (CMT) ULTRASPARC®T1 processor and system. This major product technology results show that the Sun's breakthrough multi-core, multi-threaded technology provides superb performance, but also can greatly reduce the space used by the system and energy consumption. Sun's multithreaded technology and approach begins with the Solaris 10 operating system (OS), which treats each thread as a virtual CPU, which greatly increases efficiency and reduces energy consumption.

"Although Solaris has handled thousands of parallel threads for more than 10 years, we made a decision a few years ago to focus SPARC development on chip multithreading." We are convinced that the most important thing for the CIO is the efficiency of the data center-that is, to do the maximum amount of work at the most likely low operating cost, "said John Fowler, executive vice president of the Sun Company's Department of System affairs." At present, we estimate that T1000 Only 15% of the CPU computing cycle is not being exploited, but what about the competitor's processor? The best 85% computing cycles are wasted. In today's business environment, electricity is very expensive, so there is a greater need for computational performance. We are convinced that we want to provide the best technology and products for our clients and for our planet. ”

For China's industries and enterprises, such as finance, telecommunications, health care, manufacturing, education, the Internet and other industries, these industries and enterprises need to provide users with a good customer experience at a lower cost, the overall upgrading of the existing IT infrastructure efficiency. and Sun's chip multithreading (CMT) technology and Solaris 10 will provide them with a successful solution. Globally, concentric.com, PlanetOut, and Vonage have deployed Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers to achieve high performance and energy efficiency unmatched by others.