Sun T5-2 and T2/Linux

Sun T5-2

The Sun T5 are fivth vgeneration Sun Niagara "Cool Threads" hyper threaded high end, "cloud" optimized 64-bit UltraSPARC servers that delivered world record performance on a highly scalable, secure and integrated platform optimized for enterprise software. As first out-of-order SPARC CPU, it came with an 5x improvement in single-thread performance.

As other high-end servers, the T5 based UltraSPARC systems come with a hypervisor firmware and can be partitionized.

Notes

Performance Index

3:34m to build binutils-2.45 w/ gcc-15.2.0 (-Osmartly) on linux-6.16.10
2:23m to build bash-5.3.3 w/ gcc-15.2.0 (-Osmartly) on linux-6.16.10
15s to build lua-5.4.8 w/ gcc-15.2.0 (-Osmartly) on linux-6.16.10

/proc/cpuinfo

cpu : UltraSparc T5 (Niagara5)
fpu : UltraSparc T5 integrated FPU
pmu : niagara5
prom : OBP 4.38.17 2019/01/25 08:22
type : sun4v
ncpus probed : 256
ncpus active : 256
D$ parity tl1 : 0
I$ parity tl1 : 0
cpucaps : flush,stbar,swap,muldiv,v9,blkinit,n2,mul32,div32,v8plus,popc,vis,vis2,ASIBlkInit,fmaf,vis3,hpc,ima,pause,cbcond,aes,des,kasumi,camellia,md5,sha1,sha256,sha512,mpmul,montmul,montsqr,crc32c
Cpu0ClkTck : 00000000d6924470
...
Cpu255ClkTck : 00000000d6924470
MMU Type : Hypervisor (sun4v)
MMU PGSZs : 8K,64K,4MB,256MB,2GB
State:
CPU0: online
...
CPU255: online

lspci

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Oracle/SUN Device 8196 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0000:02:03.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0000:02:04.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0000:02:05.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0000:02:06.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0000:03:00.0 USB controller: Renesas Electronics Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
0000:04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
0000:04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
0000:04:00.2 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
0000:04:00.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
0001:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Oracle/SUN Device 8196 (rev 01)
0001:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0001:02:01.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0001:02:02.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0001:02:04.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0001:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
0001:03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
0001:04:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 (rev 05)
0001:05:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SSS6200 PCI-Express Flash SSD (rev 03)
0002:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Oracle/SUN Device 8196 (rev 01)
0002:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0002:02:01.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0002:02:02.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0002:02:07.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0002:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
0002:03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
0002:04:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 (rev 05)
0002:05:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SSS6200 PCI-Express Flash SSD (rev 03)
0003:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Oracle/SUN Device 8196 (rev 01)
0003:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0003:02:03.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0003:02:05.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0003:02:06.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0003:02:07.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT Device 80bf (rev 03)
0003:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 05)
0003:04:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)
0003:06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
0003:06:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
0003:06:00.2 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
0003:06:00.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)