Oracle SuperCluster M7

Oracle SuperCluster M7 is a hardware and software system on the platform of the 32-core, 256-line SPARC M7 microprocessor.

On October 29, 2015 the Oracle corporation provided family of the SPARC systems on the basis of the 32-core, 256-line SPARC M7 microprocessor. Systems are equipped with Security in Silicon and SQL in Silicon technology for work with databases.

SPARC T7 (2015) server

Systems on the basis of the SPARC M7 processor — the optimized hardware and software system Oracle SuperCluster M7 and the SPARC T7 and M7 servers, are intended for seamless integration with the operating IT infrastructure and the integrated means of virtualization and management for a cloud environment include. All existing commercial and user applications will work at the SPARC M7 systems at substantial increase of the security levels, efficiency and performance without any changes.

Submission of Oracle SuperCluster M7 (2015)

SPARC M7 is the open platform which developers can use for creation of the new software.

Features of Oracle SPARC M7

Security in Silicon technology with two improvements of system architecture:

• Silicon Secured Memory — for increase in security and reliability is implemented the check of data access in RAM in real time providing protection against harmful invasions and a defective program code. Function of protection Silicon Secured Memory is used in Oracle Database 12c by default, it can be activated in existing applications. Oracle also provides access to API interfaces for expanded setup.

• Hardware-Assisted Encryption is means of hardware acceleration of enciphering, are built in 32 cores and provide a revolutionary gain of performance. It provides to clients the safe environment of execution and data protection for all applications, without damage of performance even in combination with AES, DES, SHA and other encryption algorithms. The applications using enciphering will automatically accelerate, including Oracle applications, other suppliers and user applications.

• SQL in Silicon technology. The coprocessors accelerating accomplishment of functions of data processing are added to all 32 cores of SPARC M7, increasing efficiency and performance of applications for databases. Coprocessors accelerate such important functions as a decompression of data, scanning of tables and search of ranges, filtering and consolidation of tables. Accomplishment of these functions on coprocessors considerably increases efficiency of each main core, reduces memory footprint and can provide 10-fold acceleration of accomplishment of requests to databases. The option Oracle Database 12c In-Memory completely maintains this functionality in the current version. Besides, availability of new functionality to experienced developers that they could create platforms of new generation for the analysis of Big Data is planned.

• Performance. The systems of Oracle on the basis of the SPARC M7 microprocessor showed high performance.

SPARC M7 (2015) server

"Before any computing platform could not ensure safety without significant effect on performance and efficiency of applications — John Fowler, the executive vice president of Oracle for the Systems direction noted. — Today Oracle offers revolutionary technology of acceleration of enciphering and protection of systems that allows to make the analysis in RAM, to work with databases and Java quicker. The Oracle SPARC T7 and M7 and Oracle SuperCluster M7 systems open a new era of safe, more effective calculations".

"Investments of Oracle into SPARC M7 led to implementation of revolutionary opportunities for data protection, effective work with databases and the performance improvements which are going beyond the corporate workloads covering Big Data and cloud environments. This most significant improvement of architecture of the microprocessor and the SPARC systems for the last decade" — Matthew Eastwood, the senior vice president of the Enterprise Infrastructure and Datacenter Group group of IDC company said.

Principles of the balanced design. The SPARC M7 processor is a basis of family of the SPARC M7 systems which are scaled from 32 to 512 cores, from 256 to 4096 flows and up to 8 TB RAM. Oracle SPARC M7 is the 32-core, 256-line processor with clock rate of 4.1 GHz providing accomplishment of the most exacting workloads thanks to the high-performance architecture balanced on all factors connected with RAM, input-output and scalability.

Servers on the basis of SPARC M7 and the SuperCluster M7 system are available on sale.