Friday 12 April 2013

SPARC SUPER CLUSTER a General Purpose Engineered System recently unveiled by Oracle Corporation which is a combination of Exadata Storage Server and Exalogic Application server.

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Oracle SPARC SUPER CLUSTER

Oracle Unveiled the World's First General Purpose Engineered System

It is designed, tested and delivered by Oracle

The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 utilizes high performance technologies from Oracle Exadata
Storage Servers and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud combined with SPARC T4-4 servers, ZFS Storage Appliance, and InfiniBand technology, and Oracle Solaris 11. With the addition of the SPARC SuperCluster, Oracle continues to set the standard for engineered systems: maximizing customer value with leading performance in a complete and tested
package

Interesting Super Cluster Configuration

I.SPARC T4-4 Compute Node ( Full RACK 4 Nodes)

Each SPARC T4-4 compute node configured with:

  • 4 x eight-core SPARC T4 Processors (3.0GHz)
  • 1 TB Memory
  • 6 x 600 GB 10,000 RPM SAS-2 Disks
  • 2 x 300 GB solid state disks
  • 4 x dual-port InfiniBand QDR
  • 4 x dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet

II.Exadata Storage Server X2-2 ( Full RACK 6 Nodes)

Each Exadata Storage Server is configured with:
  •      Either 12 x 600 GB 15,000 RPM High Performance SAS disks or 12 x 3TB 7,200 RPM High Capacity SAS disks
  •      12 CPU cores for SQL processing
  •      384 GB Exadata Smart Flash Cache

III.Sun ZFS Storage 7320 Appliance ( full rack 1 )

7320 Dual Controller, each with:
  • 2 x four-core 2.4GHz Intel® Xeon® Processors
  • 24 GB Memory
  • 1 x dual-port InfiniBand HCA
  • 2 x 500 GB SATA HDD
  • 4 x 512 GB read optimized SSD

7320 Disk Shelf with the following:
  • 20 x 3 TB using high capacity SAS-2 7,200 RPM disks
  • 4 x 73 GB write-optimized SSDs

IV.Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 ( Full rac 3 )

V.Additional Hardware Components
Additional Hardware Components Included:
  • Ethernet management switch
  • 42U rack packaging
  • 2 x Redundant Power Distributions Units (PDUs)
  • InfiniBand cables
  • 10G cables
Spares Included:
  • 1 x 600 GB High Performance SAS disk or 1 x 3 TB High Capacity SAS disk
  • 1 x 3 TB SAS disk
  • 1 x 96 GB Exadata Smart Flash Cache card

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