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Solaris Operating Environment for Sun Fire High-End Systems

The Sun Fire high-end systems can be divided into dynamic system domains. These domains are based on system board slots that are assigned to the domains. Each domain is electrically isolated into hardware partitions, which ensures that any failure in one domain does not affect the other domains in the system.

The Sun Fire high-end systems run the Solaris Operating Environment on their domains and on the system controller. Previous versions of the Solaris Operating Environment are not supported on Sun Fire high-end systems.

The Solaris Operating Environment offers the best of UNIX-class reliability, availability, and serviceability at a fraction of the cost of mainframe operating systems.

The Solaris Operating Environment provides:

• Stability, high performance, capacity, and precision

• 32- and 64-bit operating environments

• Easy-to-use tools

• High quality and reliability

• Integrated graphics with industry-standard API support

• Over 12,000 leading technical and business applications