The New and Improved SPARC M7 from Sun Microsystems
Since acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle has kept its promise to leverage Sun’s SPARC silicon for Sun servers. Last year it introduced SPARC M7, bringing innovations and added features for developers and businesses. The SPARC M7 has carried on the tradition of the SPARC series, and is one powerful thing you could buy.
New and Improved features
It is the 5th processor for Sun servers after M6 SPARC and T5 and M5 SPARC. The recently introduced SPARC M7 is powered by 32 fourth generation S4 cores. Per core, it has limits of being dynamically threaded with 8 threads. The limit of physical memory supported has been increased to 2 TB in SPARC M7. Oracle plans to scale the server system until it reaches 32 processors.
Additional Security
For those looking at an extra bit of security for protecting their devices, the M7 is a solution. The security protocol has been strengthened in SPARC M7 with Application Data Integrity option. It focuses on C and C++ languages to prevent out of bounds memory corruption by allocating memory using malloc. It will display all memory accesses improving the performance of debug applications.
Database features
The database In-Memory Query Accelerator feature have been introduced in SPARC M7, and It can also carry out live data decompression within its processor, leading to utilization of storage space and improved performance. It also benefits systems by enabling low latency message transfer between them. Database applications are expected to perform very efficiently using these features.
