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The Sun Solaris™ on AMD ™ Processors World-class OS reliability meets industry-leading multi-core performance

Delivering Reliability, Scalability, to systems with Solaris Trusted Opteron Security, and Performance for Extensions, a feature that makes it possible Today’s Enterprise to securely host thousands of applications 6 4 When you run the Solaris OS on AMD Opteron and multiple customers on the same system. -based systems, you get the Designed for High Performance capabilities of a truly mission-critical operating Sun and AMD: Bringing Together the The Solaris 10 OS on AMD Opteron system. AMD and Sun have invested five Best of Both Worlds processor-based systems has set ™ years in collaboration to tune the AMD Opteron The Sun Solaris Operating System (OS) performance and price/performance records ™ processor to fully capitalize on the innovations running on AMD Opteron processors offers on a range of benchmarks covering a variety in the Solaris OS – and to tune the Solaris OS an ideal solution for enterprises of all sizes of x86 workloads. The high-performing to achieve outstanding performance on AMD’s that seek a dependable, scalable, and secure Solaris 10 OS has also been tuned for optimal x86 architecture. That investment makes this to serve their current memory placement, enabling a solution that solution the optimal choice for a fully integrated and future needs. The product of a longtime takes full advantage of the AMD Opteron enterprise-class system. collaboration between Sun and AMD, this processor’s large and unique distributed powerful solution features a reliable, stable -Solid Reliability memory architecture. OS that has been specifically optimized for The Solaris OS provides a robust feature set the AMD Opteron processor platform. that works to ensure uptime for mission-critical Protecting Existing The result: outstanding performance and new applications, even in the event of hardware Technology Investments levels of power and functionality for real- and application faults or during planned To help you protect your investments in world applications. downtime. And for continued high availability, technology, the Solaris OS running on the Solaris Fault Management Architecture AMD Opteron processors allows for smooth technology transitions. Highlights tracks and diagnoses system errors and failures, helping system administrators to −− Powerful processor and OS Consistent Processor Technology respond to problems before they adversely Across Systems solution for x64 systems impact business. To help minimize the cost and disruption of transitions and to maximize investments in −− Proven, with leading-edge Massive Scalability OS performance on a widely The Solaris OS offers proven scalability, as hardware, , and personnel, AMD x64 deployed processor platform the AMD Opteron processor scales from technology and the common core strategy are consistent across one-, two-, four-, and −− Mission-critical reliability with two cores to 32 (for eight-socket, quad-core systems) in a single architecture. Together, eight-socket systems and with previous fault management and other generations of AMD Opteron processors. advanced features they support systems in environments ranging from small and medium organizations The processor architecture is designed −− Designed for system scalability to large enterprises, running applications from to evolve in a planned way, providing and easy technology transitions the edge of the network to the . compatibility among processor generations. The transitions from one generation to the −− Outstanding consolidation The scalability of the combined solution allows you to standardize and streamline are integrated into the Solaris OS, platforms supporting multiple ensuring simple migration as the processor options IT support requirements with the growing demands of your business. and platform technologies evolve. −− Free, open-source OS, fully supported by Sun Proven Security Timely OS Support for Processor Innovations Leading-edge security features in the Solaris As new features are introduced in the −− History of collaboration between OS can help reduce the risk of intrusions, AMD Opteron processors, new functionality AMD and Sun keep applications and data secure, and is quickly added to the Solaris OS, helping −− World-class, trusted technology control user access to critical resources. to ensure that customers always have rapid partners committed to excellence The Solaris 10 OS–the latest version of the access to the latest processor capabilities. in customer satisfaction Solaris OS–extends its proven security Broad Application Support Multi-Platform Compatibility AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture features Your software application investments are The Solaris OS running on AMD Opteron multiple cores on a single wafer, with those protected by the combination of Sun Solaris processor-based systems delivers the same cores directly connected to each other, the and ™ development environments running exceptional features on multiple hardware memory, and the I/O subsystem. In addition, on AMD Opteron™ processors. These systems systems. In fact, the Solaris 10 OS works with the is built directly onto can currently run thousands of the most many different AMD processor-powered the processor die. Quad-Core AMD Opteron popular applications; for the future, Sun and systems. It’s compatible with 900 x64/x86 processors can provide much higher levels AMD plan to continue to make it simple for ISVs systems from technology partners like Sun, of performance in the same power and to port new applications. , HP, and IBM, as well as many others. thermal envelopes as Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors, providing easy upgradeability from Ongoing Application Compatibility Outstanding Virtualization dual- to quad-core so you can leverage existing With the Solaris OS running on AMD Opteron To simplify and optimize operations in the IT equipment. processor-based systems, older applications next-generation data center, Sun offers the can run unchanged, and can even take Sun™ xVM infrastructure – which addresses The Solaris OS: Proven OS Performance advantage of new, advanced Solaris features. both individual virtualization and and Open-Source Innovation Plus, binary compatibility between Solaris unified management of both physical and Designed specifically for and releases allows existing applications to run virtual assets throughout the data center. 64-bit computing, the Solaris OS delivers proven unmodified during transitions. Collaboration between Sun and the open- results. It delivers a consistent computing source community has also enabled the full environment for everything from departmental Reaping the Rewards of use of hardware-assisted AMD Virtualization™ servers to massive, clustered servers with Collaborative Innovation (AMD-™) technology extensions supported in hundreds of CPUs, running applications from AMD and Sun engineers have been working Xen to help improve virtualization performance, mission-critical databases to high-performance to optimize the AMD Opteron processor for the resource utilization, and scalability. Web farms. Solaris OS since 2003. The ongoing collaboration between AMD and Sun has led to a growing The AMD Opteron™ Processor: The Solaris 10 OS is specifically engineered number of innovations to increase system Building on a Proven Platform and optimized for multi-core systems running performance and help reduce operating costs. Leading companies around the world trust multi-threaded applications, with integrated AMD Opteron processor-based platforms for 64-bit support and features like memory Improved Power Management their most demanding enterprise computing placement optimization to help improve data The combination of Enhanced AMD PowerNow!™ needs. And AMD has increased its advantages throughput. It also provides improved support technology and the Solaris OS allows you to with quad-core technologies and advanced for Enhanced AMD PowerNow!™ technology, implement server power management schemes innovations that further enhance energy contributing to better power management. that can help reduce system power usage while efficiency. maintaining high system performance. This can The OpenSolaris™ OS is an open-source release contribute to reductions in power consumption Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are of the Solaris OS, providing a stable, consistent, that can be especially significant in data centers designed to leverage the native x86 instruction easy-to-use environment for developing that run large numbers of server systems. set that enterprises trust. AMD’s enhancements new applications. It combines open-source provide significant advantages, including innovation with the assurance of proven, Advanced Multi-Core Support industry-leading performance-per-watt and extensive testing and worldwide support. Five years of collaboration between Sun and x86 virtualization, translating to low total cost AMD have resulted in exceptional multi-core of ownership. And the ability to upgrade Get the Details processing performance and scalability. existing Dual-Core to Quad-Core AMD Opteron To learn more about the Sun Solaris OS on

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