Sun introduced Sun Fire midrange serversNew York 21 March 2001 The new midframe include innovations such as redundant component interconnection technology, the ability to dynamically split one system into multiple systems, duplicate hardware components, and "on-the-fly" processor upgrades. At their core are UltraSPARC III processors.
At the core of the servers' availability levels is the Sun
Fireplane interconnection or backplane. This fully-redundant backplane -- a
design "first" for this class of system -- enables fault-isolated partitioning
and dynamic partitioning in a full production environment. This ability to
split the computer into separate domains enables customers the ability to
design midrange systems with unprecedented levels of security, fault
tolerance, uptime and flexibility in accommodating system growth or varying
service demands.
Its cable-free design gives the Sun Fireplane interconnect greater
bandwidth for more predictable performance and lower latency, which results in
higher application performance. At 9.6 GB/sec sustained performance.
The Sun servers also feature end-to-end ECC (error checking correction
code) for parity checking on data, address and external cache.
The Sun Fire servers ship with Sun Management Center software, a web-based management tool that provides a central point
for managing and monitoring all aspects of Sun servers. In addition to
increasing efficiency, Sun Management Center software assists the customer by
providing sophisticated system analysis, instrumentation and configuration
management.
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