A powerful member of Sun's UltraSPARC III Cu family of binary-compatible, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers, the 8 processor Sun Fire 3800 system addresses the crucial data center requirement for continuous availability. The compact, highly available Sun Fire 3800 server makes an ideal system for email, Web hosting, business applications, and high-performance compute farms. Featuring the redundantly configurable Sun Fireplane Interconnect, this server delivers impressive total system performance. Full hardware redundancy and a variety of advanced mainframe-class availability features, such as Hot CPU Upgrades and Dynamic Reconfiguration, provide for high availability. With Solaris Resource Manager and Dynamic System Domains, this server has the flexibility to accommodate changing resource requirements across multiple applications. The Sun Fire 3800 system fits into industry standard 19-inch racks, providing the compute density today's data centers require.