A Simplified Solution for Product Lifecycle Management —MSC SimManager on a SPARC T5-4 Server Oracle's SPARC T5-4 server running MSC SimManager and Oracle Database 12c consolidates the work of multiple x86 servers for an automotive design workload while delivering better overall performance. Market demands and competitive pressures continue to drive product design and development teams to innovate rapidly, while keeping costs low. Engineering simulation solutions have taken the center stage in helping companies design and develop innovative products while reducing physical prototyping costs, and exploring a larger design space, resulting in more design possibilities. The most important aspect of simulation technologies is providing a reliable and fast data access platform, with scalability and longevity that is standards compliant, quick to implement, and cost effective to support. The Joint Oracle and MSC Software Solution MSC Software’s SimManager is a system for managing simulation processes, resources, and information across an engineering enterprise. SimManager relies on Oracle Database as the foundation for this simulation process and data management system. MSC developers and their Oracle counterparts have devised an integrated system that functions in a seamless manner and serves to simplify the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the simulation solution. SPARC is the #1 server platform for Oracle Database For this joint solution, a single SPARC T5-4 server running Oracle Solaris 11 was deployed to consolidate the MSC SimManager server, the Oracle Database 12c server, and the web application server onto a single platform. An automotive design workload was deployed to demonstrate how the SPARC T5-4 server can be used to consolidate the work of multiple x86 servers and deliver better overall performance while reducing complexity and achieving optimal product designs. The result is a very reliable, high-performance simulation solution in which the entire stack—SPARC T5-4 servers and storage, Oracle Solaris operating system, and Oracle Database—are designed to work together for maximum performance, reliability, and manageability. MSC Software, the worldwide leader in multidiscipline simulation, tested and tuned SimManager on the Oracle platform to prove the solution exceeded customer requirem

A Simplified Solution for Product Lifecycle Management —MSC SimManager on a SPARC T5-4 Server Performance: Oracle's SPARC T5-4 stack outperformed a multiple Linux/x86 server configuration in all 12 workload simulations considered. (See benchmark description below.) Scalability: Oracle’s SPARC T5-4 server running Oracle Solaris 11 is optimized to accelerate Oracle database in large-scale simulation applications and enterprise-wide consolidation projects, delivering massive system throughput and storage capacity. Manageability: Utilizing the designed-in virtualization capabilities of Oracle Solaris...