ORACLE

ORACLE SPARC PROCESSORS

SPARC M7

SPARC M6

SPARC T5

Frequency

4.13GHz

3.6GHz

3.6GHz

Cores/Threads

32/256

12/96

16/128

Core Type

S4

S3

S3

Max Sockets

16

32

16 DDR4 DIMMs

32 DDR3 DIMMs

16 DDR3 DIMMs

L1:D16K+I16K,
L2: D256K +I256K,
L3: 64M

L1: 16K+16K,
L2: 128K,
L3: 48M

L1: 16K+16K,
L2: 128K,
L3: 8M

16Gb

2Gb

2Gb

Memory

Caches

Large Pages

CORES
UNITS

32

64

128

256

RACK
10RU

M7-8

8RU

T5-8

5RU

T5-4

3RU

T5-2

2RU

T7-1

T7-2

T7-4

384

512

M6-32

M7-16

SPARC M7

SPARC M7 FEATURES

8x (4x S4) CORE CLUSTERS, 8x (x4 DAX) SQL Accelerators

Silicon Secured Memory

Encryption Acceleration
DAX: InMemory Query Acceleration
DAX: In-Line Data Decompresson

I/O FEATURES
SPARC M7 Chip: 2x (x16: 2x8) I/Olinks (IL) to On-Chip Network
I/O Controller ASIC: 5 PCI-E Gen3 Root Complexes, 2 I/O Links
NVM Express Switch > 4 2.5 SSD
NVM Express F160 SSD Accelerator Card
eUSB Storage and Solaris Boot Pools

THE TEST: InMemory Columnar Compression

ESG Labs RCDB Benchmark: 1.1Tb Star Schema 1 fact, 4 dimension tables
Compressed to 179Gb InMemory Columnar Store

THE TEST: Query Performance Gains

select count(distinct(lo_custkey)) from (select lo_custkey from lineorder, date_dim where lo_orderdate = d_datekey and
d_weeknuminyear = 25 and d_year = 2015 and lo_orderpriority <> '2-HIGH' and lo_ordtotalprice between 7000 and
15000 group by lo_orderkey, lo_custkey having count(lo_linenumber = 1);

Query Stream: 2304 unique queries

Composite Workload (OLTP: 224 users, DSS: 48 streams)

SPARC T7-1

SPARC T7-1

SPARC T7-2

SPARC T7-2

SPARC T7-4

SPARC T7-4

SPARC M7 CMIOU CHASSIS

SPARC M7 CMIOU

SPARC M7-8: STATIC PDom CONFIGS

Single PDom
M7

Double PDom

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

M7

SPARC M7-16 Switch Chassis

SPARC M7-16

DCU

DCU

Switch

DCU

DCU

SPARC M7-16

SPARC T5: PROs & CONs

(-) Lower Frequency, no DAX -> Lower Performance

(-) More Rack Space per Core
(-) More Price (up to 22%) per Core
(+) More Memory per Core (until new DDR4 DIMMs will come for T7)
(+) Solaris 10 support for Control & I/O Domains

SPARC T5-8

SPARC M6 CPU

SPARC M6-32:
Coherency
Interconnect

SPARC M6-32

UP TO 32Tb Memory

FUJITSU: SPARC64 X(+) PROCESSORS

SPARC64 X+ 16 core 3.4GHz

SPARC64 X+ 8 core 3.7GHz
SPARC64 X 16 core 2.8GHz
L1: I64K+D64K (per core), L2: 24MB, 2 Threads per Core, SIMD
16 DDR3 DIMMs: 8, 16, 32, 64 Gb

FUJITSU M10-1

FUJITSU M10-1

FUJITSU M10-1

FUJITSU M10-4

FUJITSU M10-4S

UP TO 64 CPU,
1024Cores, 64Tb

FUJITSU M10-4S
Building Block

FUJITSU M10-4S BB Direct Connection

FUJITSU M10-4S BB Full Configuration

INTEL X86 PROCESSORS

E5-2699 v3

E5-2699 v4

E7-8895 v3

Frequency

2.3Ghz

2.2GHz

2.6GHz

Cores/Threads

18/36

22/44

18/36

Core Type

Haswell-EP

Broadwell-EP

Haswell-EX

Max Sockets

Memory

24 DDR4 DIMMs

24 DDR4 DIMMs

24 DDR3 DIMMs

Caches

L2:256K (per core),

L3:45M

L2:256K (per core),

L3:55M

L2:256K (per core),

L3:45M

Large Pages

2M

2M

2M

CORES
UNITS

36

44

72

5RU

144
X5-8

3RU

X5-4

2RU

X5-2L

X6-2L

1RU

X5-2

X6-2

ORACLE X6-2

ORACLE X6-2L

ORACLE X5-4: FRONT SIDE

ORACLE X5-4: BACK SIDE

ORACLE X5-8: FRONT SIDE

ORACLE X5-8: BACK SIDE

System Management

ORACLE (SPARC & X86): ILOM

ILOM: CLI (SSH, Serial), BUI, SNMP, IPMI, RKVMS

FUJITSU (SPARC & X86): XSCF

XSCF: CLI (SSH, Serial), BUI, SNMP, USB DVD

System Virtualization

SPARC: PDom (M7-16,M6-32,M10-4S)

Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Ldom)

Oracle Solaris Zones (SPARC & X86)

Oracle VM Server for X86

Q&A