Oracle Linux on SPARC Arrives!

 

[SPARC M7 Die with Floor Plan]

Oracle Linux on SPARC Arrives!

Abstract:

Sun Microsystems had long hosted multiple processors in their workstation and server platforms, dating back Motorola 68000, Intel x86, SPARC, and re-introducing Intel again. Sun had mostly run SunOS, rebranding as Solaris with the investment of AT&T SVR4, and occasionally running multiple OS derivatives under various appliances. Today, Oracle is bringing Oracle Linux is becoming as an official supported platform under SPARC.

[Courtesy: Oracle Exadata SL6 SPARC Linux Presentation]

Presenter:

Juan Loaiza

Senior Vice President

Oracle Corporation

[Courtesy: Oracle Exadata SL6 SPARC Linux Presentation]

Major Points

Linux is supported on a new SPARC Exadata platform. There were two presentation covered.

[Courtesy: Oracle Database Exadata SL6 SPARC Linux Presentation]

SPARC M7

The worlds fastest General Processor with Software in Silicon breakthroughs.

[Courtesy: Oracle Database Exadata SL6 SPARC Linux Presentation]

DAX

32 Database Accelerators added on the M7 Silicon are available under Linux.

[Courtesy: Oracle Database Exadata SL6 SPARC Linux Presentation]

Decompression

32 Decompression Engines added on the M7 Silicon are available under Linux.

[Courtesy: Oracle Database Exadata SL6 SPARC Linux Presentation]

Security in Silicon

Buffer Overflow Attacks eliminated under Linux.

[Courtesy: Oracle Database Exadata SL6 SPARC Linux Presentation]

Intel Replaced with Faster SPARC

With the Exadata SPARC Linux platform, the slower Intel nodes are replaced with a higher speed SPARC node. The cost is the same.

Conclusions:

Oracle not only offers the fastest databases, SPARC as the fastest General Purpose CPU, and now a popular Linux Operating System to supplement the Solaris Operating System.