Oracle says the new processors Sparc M6
A new database system Oracle Database 12C and vysokotrebovatelnye computational load will run much faster on the new microprocessor Sparc M6, announcement is expected soon. This is related to Oracle, adding that the new corporation's flagship application will initially be optimized for the M6. latest generation processor Sparc receive 12 processor cores, double the figure M5, the supply of which began in the spring of this year. Each core M6 can handle up to 8 data streams, allowing the concurrent operation of the chip with 96 parallel streams of data, said at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford (Calif.) Vahidsafa Ali, a senior engineer for the hardware development Oracle. According to him, on the Sparc processors server arena have their place for over 20 years, and the problem M6 - better integrated into the high-performance, highly parallel processing system.
It is expected that the new chips will expand its portfolio of high-performance servers, Oracle. "These chips will consolidate virtual load the database, especially DB class in-memory, as well as application software with high performance requirements," - says Vahidsafa. At the same time he noticed that the M6 will be fully compatible with the existing Sparc-software so invested in the purchase of new programs is not required. specifics of chips he singled improved support for multithreading, as well as a new mode of Critical Thread for single-threaded applications in which they receive the highest priority processing for maximum performance.
To build a real performance chips M6, Oracle has increased the size of cache per each core, as well as expanded capacity supported memory. So, M6 will receive up to 46 MB of L3 cache memory and be able to work with 1TB of RAM on the server. About clocked processors in Oracle were reported. however reported that the M6 was "deeply tuned" to work with in-memory databases, as well as a multilevel system is memory, which is useful for servers that run dozens of concurrent applications. It is expected that the processors M6 will work in 2 -, 4 -, and 8-way servers, but special "tuning shop" such as Bixby, plans to produce 32 - and even 48-processor servers based on the M6. For multiprocessor systems implemented here a new system of load-balancing between the chips, and built a set of regulations for the prevention and correction algorithms. Two final points are needed for servers, which are subject to extremely high demands on uptime. At the same time, with the traditional server-ECC-memory, the new processors are working. At Oracle has not said exactly when the Sparc M6 will come to market. Note that on the new chips Oracle is working with Fujitsu.
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