Title :
The Oracle Sparc T5 16-Core Processor Scales to Eight Sockets
Author :
Feehrer, J. ; Jairath, S. ; Loewenstein, P. ; Sivaramakrishnan, R. ; Smentek, D. ; Turullols, Sebastian ; Vahidsafa, A.
Abstract :
The Oracle Sparc T5 processor more than doubles the throughput of the Sparc T4 processor, while increasing per-thread performance, scalability, power efficiency, and I/O bandwidth. The authors detail the improvements and new features leading to this latest Oracle Sparc processor.
Keywords :
energy conservation; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; performance evaluation; power aware computing; 16-core processor; I/O bandwidth; Oracle Sparc T5 processor; per thread floating point; power efficiency; scalability; sockets; Cache storage; Computer architecture; Fault tolerance; Memory; Multicore processing; Multiprocessors; Power system management; Program processors; Oracle; Sparc T4; Sparc T5; availability; cache memory; computer architecture; computer performance; directory cache coherence; encryption; fault tolerance; microprocessors; multicore processing; multiprocessor interconnection; multiprocessor scaling; multithreaded processors; parallel architectures; power management; processor architectures; reliability;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
