Key Applications:

High availability and the flexibility to adapt to your application needs make the Sun Fire[tm] server the ideal environment for mainframe application rehosting, server consolidation, and high performance computing (HPC) applications.

Key Specifications:

• Up to 106 UltraSPARC® III Cu 900-MHz processors.
  
• Big memory - more than 1/2 TB.
  
• Up to 18 fifth-generation Dynamic System Domains, which are fully configurable while applications are running.
  
• Hot-swappable Uniboard design CPU/memory boards that are common across Sun Fire server family.
  
• Redundant, high-performance Sun[tm] Fireplane Interconnect with up to 172.8 GBps peak bandwidth.
  
• Full redundancy of power and cooling systems.
  
  
  

Key Benefits:

• Uniboard CPU/memory boards--interchangeable among Sun Fire Midframe and 15K servers--help lower total cost of ownership.
  
• Solaris[tm] Operating Environment and redundant hardware components contribute to high system availability.
  
• Secure, fifth-generation Dynamic System Domains isolate applications from potential faults for near-continuous application availability.
  
• Centralized management capabilities can be extended to include other platforms, lowering administrative effort and cost.
  
• Near-linear scalability provides high performance for transaction-intensive environments.
  
• Binary compatibility with Sun Enterprise[tm] and Sun Fire server families protect existing investments in hardware and software.
  
  
  

Key Industries:

The high-end Sun Fire 15K server is suitable for any organization that requires a massively scalable system to host mission-critical applications. It is ideal for large data center environments.