Sun and Fujitsu jointly announced the system codenamed
Ikkaku today :
Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000.

The M3000 is a single-socket system for the SPARC 64 VII CPU, thus it´s a 4 core system, executing up to 8 threads. Up to 32 GB memory. 4 PCI-Slots. So it´s an entry-level system. Starting at $14.795,00.
But before you compare it with your favourite brand of el-cheapo x86 systems. This system shares many RAS features of his bigger brothers: Instruction Retry on processor level ... ECC for memory ... ECC for the interconnect between system controller and the CPU ... ECC for integer registers ... parity for floatingpoint registers ... fault isolation ... a single defective core doesn´t keep the system from starting up, etc. ... well ... just read the
architecture whitepaper on your own.
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