The Oracle Sparc T5 16-Core Processor Scales to Eight Sockets

Author

Feehrer, J. ; Jairath, S. ; Loewenstein, P. ; Sivaramakrishnan, R. ; Smentek, D. ; Turullols, Sebastian ; Vahidsafa, A.

Volume

33

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

March-April 2013

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

57

Abstract

The Oracle Sparc T5 processor more than doubles the throughput of the Sparc T4 processor, while increasing per-thread performance, scalability, power efficiency, and I/O bandwidth. The authors detail the improvements and new features leading to this latest Oracle Sparc processor.

Keywords

energy conservation; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; performance evaluation; power aware computing; 16-core processor; I/O bandwidth; Oracle Sparc T5 processor; per thread floating point; power efficiency; scalability; sockets; Cache storage; Computer architecture; Fault tolerance; Memory; Multicore processing; Multiprocessors; Power system management; Program processors; Oracle; Sparc T4; Sparc T5; availability; cache memory; computer architecture; computer performance; directory cache coherence; encryption; fault tolerance; microprocessors; multicore processing; multiprocessor interconnection; multiprocessor scaling; multithreaded processors; parallel architectures; power management; processor architectures; reliability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2013.49

Filename

6493301