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Sun Fire 3800

A member of Sun's UltraSPARC III family of binary-compatible, symmetric ultiprocessing (SMP) servers, the Sun Fire 3800 system addresses the crucial data center requirement for continuous availability. Featuring full hardware redundancy and a variety of advanced mainframe-class availability features, such as Hot CPU Upgrades* and Dynamic Reconfiguration*, provide for high availability.
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A member of Sun's UltraSPARC III family of binary-compatible, symmetric ultiprocessing (SMP) servers, the Sun Fire 3800 system addresses the crucial data center requirement for continuous availability. Featuring full hardware redundancy and a variety of advanced mainframe-class availability features, such as Hot CPU Upgrades* and Dynamic Reconfiguration*, provide for high availability. With Solaris Resource Manager and Dynamic System Domains*, this server fits into industry standard 19-inch racks.

*These features will be available late in 2001.

-Key Specifications: From two to eight UltraSPARC III processors, up to 64 GB of memory, 12 cPCI cards, and one or two Dynamic System Domains. The system offers mainframe-class concurrent maintenance, online upgrades and Hot CPU Upgrades. Additionally, this system offers mainframe-class resource management with fully fault isolated Dynamic System Domains. The high performance system interconnect, the Sun[tm] Fireplane Interconnect, delivers 9.6 GB/sec. sustained bandwidth and has an aggregate bandwidth of 24 GB/sec. and sustained bandwidth and 9.6 GB/sec. The system can be mounted in an industry standard 19" rack or a Sun Fire Cabinet.

-Key Benefits: Continuous uptime from a compact, highly available data center server.

-Key Industries: General purpose server suitable for all industries. Ideal packaging and performance characteristics for email, web and database servers.

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