SunFire T2000 servers are best suited for Oracle MiddleTier
Posted by Vasu Balla on Feb 23, 2009
Recently, an Oracle-L discussion on Sun T2000 servers got me thinking. The T2000 servers have Sun’s new line of processors, UltraSPARC-T1. These processors come with 8 physical cores, and each core has 4 threads (similar to hyperthreading in Intel Xeon Processors). So each UltraSPARC-T1 processor shows up as 32 Processors (8 cores * 4 threads) at the operating system (OS) level. Sun termed this technology “Cool Threads”. It is supposed to give high-volume throughput along with saving millions on power and cooling costs.
But many discussion forums have more complaints against these T2000 servers than praises. Read the rest of this entry . . .
