SUN ENTERPRISE[tm] 5500 SERVER
With its integrated rack-mounted storage, Sun
Enterprise[tm] 5500 server packs more internal capacity into
a space-saving design to maximize space in data center
environments. The balanced system design is built around Sun's
high-performance Gigaplane[tm] technology and delivers tremendous
throughput for compute- and I/O-intensive databases, decision support
and business applications. The Sun Enterprise 5500 server increases
system availability through its resilient design, Dynamic
Reconfiguration and Alternate Pathing, system recovery, and proactive
hardware failure prediction. System management is simplified by
Sun[tm] Management Center software's easy-to-use interface and
management controls.
NSCEE's ENTERPRISE[tm] 5500 SERVER
| Number of processors |
8 UltraSPARC II at 400 MHz |
| Architecture |
Superscalar SPARC[tm] Version 9,
UltraSPARC[tm] |
| Cache per processor |
Primary: 16 KB instruction, and 16 KB data on chip
Secondary: 4 MB external cache |
| System Interconnect |
Gigaplane[tm] 2.68 GB/second (at 84 MHz),
3.2 GB/second (at 100 MHz) |
| CPU/Memory board |
Eight 400 MHz/8 MB UltraSparc Modules |
| SBus I/O board |
Two with two SBus channels, three Sbus slots,
SunFastEthernet[tm] Fast/Wide
SCSI-2, two FC-AL sockets |
| Main Memory |
8 GB |
| Serial interface |
Two RS-232/423 ports on clock board |
| Sbus interface |
64-bit data bus width, 25 MHz |
| Ethernet interface |
10/100 MB/second twisted pair standard
(10-BaseT and 100-BaseT) |
| SCSI |
On-board 20 MB/second Fast/Wide
SCSI-2 (synchronous) per I/O board |
| Fibre channel |
Two on-board sockets (100 MB/second Full duplex) per Sbus |
| Internal disks |
Four 18 GB 10K RPM hot-swap-drives |
| External storage |
Twelve 18 GB 10K RPM drives |
| Operating System |
Solaris 8 |