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Solaris™ 10 OS on AMD ™

Processor-based Systems < A powerful combination for your business Sun and AMD take x64 computing to a new level with the breakthrough performance of AMD Opteron™ -based systems combined with the Solaris™ 10 OS — the most advanced on the planet. By combining the best of free and open source with the most powerful industry-standard platforms, customers can take advantage of the most robust and secure, yet economical Web, database, and application servers.

A unique partnership Price/performance Coengineering and technology collaboration World-record performance Sun and AMD software engineers work jointly Leveraging more than 20 years of Symmetric on a range of codevelopment efforts including (SMP) expertise, Sun has future development of HyperTransport, virtu- tuned and optimized Solaris 10 for the AMD alization, fault management, perform- Opteron platform to deliver exceptional ance, and other ways Solaris may take advantage performance and near-linear scalability. For Highlights of the AMD Opteron architecture. Solaris 10 enterprises with demanding compute, net- • Supports the latest generation 5/08 also includes support for the latest gener- work, and Web applications, the combination of AMD x64 processors ation of AMD x64 processors and UltraSPARC of Solaris 10 and AMD Opteron processor-based • PowerNow! enhancements CMT systems. systems is often an ideal fit. Dozens of perform- provide additional power man- ance and price/performance world record agement capabilities Growing the Solaris™ OS ecosystem for AMD64 benchmarks demonstrate this exceptional • Remote client display virtualiztion Sun and AMD are working together with key combination. Solaris 10 has set more than • Solaris Trusted Extensions optimi- target ISVs, system builders, and independent 50 world records, employing various industry- zations for better hardware vendors (IHVs) to fuel growth of the standard benchmarks or workload scenarios and security Solaris 10 ecosystem around AMD64. By jointly on AMD Opteron systems. pursuing partners, AMD helps strengthen the value proposition for partner engagement, Improve application performance lending additional credence to the Sun x64 Optimizing C, C++, and Fortran strategy. Additionally, Sun delivers a source in Sun Studio 11 boosts runtime application code guarantee for Solaris assuring that if you performance. A series of industry-standard develop and successfully compile C and C++ benchmarks referred to in this document are applications to run on SPARC® platforms, these related to Sun Studio tools for use on AMD applications will successfully compile and run Opteron processor-based systems. And AMD on x64/ platforms. PowerNow! enhancements mean additional power management capabilities for the latest Engaging the community versions of the AMD processors. Leveraging open source developers, Sun and AMD work jointly with the community to define Memory placement optimization and promote interoperability standards and With memory placement optimization origi- best practices. Additionally, the two companies nally implemented in 1998 for UltraSPARC™ invite IHVs to participate by offering support processor- based servers, Sun harnesses its for their x64 drivers through various communi- existing expertise to provide this support to cations and joint campaigns. 2 Solaris™ 10 OS on AMD Opteron™ Processor-based Systems sun.com/solaris

AMD Opteron processor-based systems, improving failing cores and take them off line, without overall system performance on systems with taking the entire CPU off line or affecting Learn More multiple dual-core CPUs. application availability. Find out about the Solaris 10 OS and download it for free at sun.com/solaris. Enabling data-intensive computing on x64 Both the Solaris OS and AMD Opteron processors Building on a solid foundation of resource man- Find out if Solaris 10 is supported on your are built to enable data-intensive computing for agement functionality, offer x64 system at sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. large numbers of users or transactions, deliv- efficient application consolidation that helps Learn to develop Solaris applications at ering a natural performance advantage. reduce system administration complexity. With developers.sun.com/solaris. the inherent performance of AMD Opteron sys- Solaris for lower TCO tems, customers can use Solaris Containers to Find out more about the wide range of In a typical deployment scenario, the cost of consolidate multiple applications into a single applications supported and world records obtaining support for Solaris is 20- to 40-percent system, while enjoying independent control achieved at Sun.com/AMD. less than obtaining it from Red Hat. A consumer over allocated resources. By isolating applica- Internet company specializing in highly cus- tions and faults, security is further ensured. Predictive Self Healing tomizable social networking environments An innovative capability in Solaris 10, Predictive shared key findings on why the Solaris OS was Built to scale Self Healing automatically diagnoses, iso- chosen to run its business. This TCO scenario Today, 32-bit applications can experience lates, and recovers from many hardware and is based on the cost of hardware, software, increased performance by accessing maximum application faults. As a result, business- support and service plans, power, and cooling, memory space on AMD Opteron platforms. As critical as well as required space and system foot- customers choose to move from 32-bit to 64-bit applications and essential system services can print. For this customer, the cost of supporting applications, they may immediately deploy these continue uninterrupted in the event of software Red Hat was ten times more than Solaris on in the same environment, experiencing a seam- failures and major hardware component failures, AMD Opteron processor-based systems. Visit less, risk-free growth path to 64-bit computing. even software misconfiguration problems. To sun.com/solaris/ning for details. deliver fault management support for AMD DTrace Opteron processor-based systems, Sun worked Product System administrators, integrators, and devel- closely with AMD. Technology advancements in Solaris 10, and opers can use dynamic instrumentation and its ability to take advantage of AMD Opteron tracing capabilities to really see what the system Open source architecture, create unique advantages for the is doing, for both the kernel and user processes. For organizations that require access to the powerful pair. As Sun and AMD development source code when choosing an operating teams continue to share roadmap information DTrace can be utilized on production systems system, the Solaris OS — millions of lines of and collaborate in this space, additional opti- without modification to applications. This code — has been released to the open source mizations will become available. unique, powerful tool gives a true system-level community via .org. OpenSolaris view of application and kernel activities, even gives developers and users a low-risk option Multicore platform support those running in a ™ Virtual Machine. Base- for evaluating Solaris source, plus an excellent Solaris 10 features are not just fully supported, line data gathering reduces the time for diag- opportunity to participate in developing the they are specifically engineered for multicore nosing problems from days and weeks to minutes Solaris OS. Additionally, 188 leading open source systems. For example, Solaris Containers can and hours, enabling faster data-driven fixes packages — like Apache, Tomcat and Samba — allow for fine-grain resource management at and an opportunity to unleash the full potential are included, precompiled and ready to go. the core level. Additionally, the Predictive Self of the powerful AMD Opteron processor. Healing functionality can automatically detect

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