Sun rolls out Sun Fire T2000 Server

Sun this week at its quarterly announcements introduced the first of its servers that uses its UltraSparc T1 (formerly Niagara) CoolThreads technology.   The 2U high Sun Fire T2000 Server uses the UltraSparc T1 multicore processor and supports 16 slots of memory that can be populated with as much as 32 G-bytes of memory.

Sun this week at its quarterly announcements introduced the first of its servers that uses its UltraSparc T1 (formerly Niagara) CoolThreads technology. 

The 2U high Sun Fire T2000 Server uses the UltraSparc T1 multicore processor and supports 16 slots of memory that can be populated with as much as 32 G-bytes of memory.

Sun claims the rack-mountable Sun Fire T2000 Server consumes only 80 watts of power – less than a light bulb – by using the CoolThreads technology, in which eight processing cores can run four threads.

The 1.2 GHz Sun Fire T2000 does not support hardware RAID and does not fully implement the Solaris predictive self-healing feature, which allows the system to predict component failure and mitigate problems before they occur.

The Sun Fire T2000 has four 10/100/1000 M-bit auto-negotiating Ethernet ports and supports as many as four 73G-byte Serial Attached SCSI drives. It has four USB ports. The system is cooled by three hot swappable and redundant fans and powered by two hot-swappable and redundant power supplies.

It has three PCI-Express slots and two PCI-X slots for peripherals. An advanced lights-out management (ALOM) card is available for remote management. The ALOM controller monitors events such as CPU temperature, disk drive status, enclosure thermal conditions and fan speed and status.

The Sun Fire T2000 is an entry-level server that runs the Solaris 10 3/05 HW2 operating system.

According to published reports, the Sun Fire T2000 starts at $8,300 with 8G-bytes of memory and two 73G-byte drives. Sun is also expected to ship a stripped down 1U high 1 GHz Sun Fire T1000 next year.