Editing Oracle Solaris (section)

==Supported architectures==
Solaris uses a common [[Source code|code base]] for the platforms it supports: 64-bit [[SPARC]] and [[x86-64]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oracle Solaris 11 - Downloads {{!}} Oracle Technology Network {{!}} Oracle |url=https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241205033816/https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html |archive-date=December 5, 2024 |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=www.oracle.com |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref>

Solaris has a reputation for being well-suited to [[symmetric multiprocessing]], supporting a large number of [[central processing unit|CPUs]].<ref>{{cite news
  | first = Ashlee
  | last = Vance
  | author-link = Ashlee Vance
  | title = Sun rethinks Solaris on Intel
  | url = http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/19/020419hnsecretsix.html
  | work = Infoworld
  | publisher = [[International Data Group|IDG]]
  | date = April 19, 2002
  | access-date = December 11, 2006
  | quote = Neither Microsoft Windows nor Linux can match Solaris in this type of high-end architecture, said Tony Iams, an analyst at Port Chester, N.Y., research company D.H. Brown and Associates. "Solaris has earned its reputation over a long period of time," Iams said. "They have been working on high-end scalability features for 10 years, and that's the only way you can get solid results."
  |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071012153147/http://infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/19/020419hnsecretsix.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive -->
  |archive-date = October 12, 2007}}</ref> It has historically been tightly integrated with Sun's SPARC hardware (including support for [[64-bit]] [[SPARC]] applications since Solaris 7), with which it is marketed as a combined package. This has led to more reliable systems, but at a cost premium compared to [[commodity computing|commodity PC hardware]]. However, it has supported x86 systems since Solaris 2.1 and 64-bit x86 applications since Solaris 10, allowing Sun to capitalize on the availability of commodity 64-bit CPUs based on the [[x86-64]] architecture. Sun heavily marketed Solaris for use with both its own x86-64-based [[Sun Java Workstation]] and the x86-64 models of the [[Sun Ultra series]] [[workstation]]s, and [[server (computing)|servers]] based on [[AMD]] [[Opteron]] and [[Intel]] [[Xeon]] processors, as well as x86 systems manufactured by companies such as [[Dell]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000147631/oracle-solaris |title=Oracle Solaris |publisher=Dell USA |access-date=July 14, 2022 |archive-date=July 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714221938/https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000147631/oracle-solaris |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Hewlett-Packard]], and [[IBM]]. {{as of|2009}}, the following vendors support Solaris for their x86 server systems:
* Dell – will "test, certify, and optimize Solaris and OpenSolaris on its rack and blade servers and offer them as one of several choices in the overall Dell software menu"<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Dell to Offer Sun's Solaris, OpenSolaris in Servers
  | publisher = [[eWeek]]
  | date = November 14, 2007
  | url = http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2216876%2C00.asp
  | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130122193340/http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216876,00.asp
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-date = January 22, 2013
  | access-date = November 14, 2007
  }}</ref>
* Intel<ref>{{cite press release
  | title = Intel Carrier Grade Platforms Certified for Sun Solaris
  | publisher = Intel Corp.
  | date = July 16, 2007
  | url = http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070716corp_b.htm
  | access-date = August 16, 2007
  | archive-date = December 16, 2007
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071216161008/http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070716corp_b.htm
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref>
* Hewlett Packard Enterprise<ref>{{cite press release
  | title = Oracle Solaris Certification and Support
  | publisher = Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  | url = http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/supportmatrix/solaris.aspx
  | access-date = February 3, 2019
  | date = 2019
  | archive-date = January 27, 2019
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190127204217/http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/supportmatrix/solaris.aspx
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> – distributes and provides software technical support for Solaris on BL, DL, and SL platforms
* Fujitsu Siemens<ref>{{cite press release
  | title = Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Siemens Computers Power PRIMERGY Servers with Solaris Operating System
  | publisher = Sun Microsystems
  | url = http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-06/sunflash.20080610.2.xml
  | access-date = June 10, 2008
  | archive-date = July 8, 2008
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080708230551/http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-06/sunflash.20080610.2.xml
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref>

===Other platforms===
Solaris 2.5.1 included support for the [[PowerPC]] platform ([[PowerPC Reference Platform]]), but the port was canceled before the Solaris 2.6 release.<ref name="ppc-kickstart" /> In January 2006, a community of developers at Blastwave began work on a PowerPC port which they named ''Polaris''.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh011606-story02.html
 |title       = OpenSolaris Community Creates Kernel for Power Chips
 |publisher   = ITJungle
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120405144010/http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh011606-story02.html
 |archive-date = April 5, 2012
}}</ref> In October 2006, an [[OpenSolaris]] community project based on the Blastwave efforts and Sun Labs' ''Project Pulsar'',<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2006/2006-06-14-SolarisPPC.html
 |title       = Embedded Solaris on PowerPC
 |publisher   = Sun Research
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20060627042251/http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2006/2006-06-14-SolarisPPC.html
 |archive-date = June 27, 2006
}}</ref> which re-integrated the relevant parts from Solaris 2.5.1 into OpenSolaris,<ref name="ppc-kickstart">{{cite web
 |url         = http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ppc-dev/kickstart/
 |title       = Kickstarting OpenSolaris on PowerPC
 |publisher   = OpenSolaris Project
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120229133259/http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ppc-dev/kickstart
 |archive-date = February 29, 2012
}}</ref> announced its first official source code release.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/
 |title       = PowerPC at OpenSolaris
 |access-date  = October 4, 2007
 |publisher   = OpenSolaris Project
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120229133135/http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+power_pc/WebHome
 |archive-date = February 29, 2012
}}</ref>

A port of Solaris to the Intel [[Itanium]] architecture was announced in 1997 but never brought to market.<ref>{{cite press release
  | publisher = Intel Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  | date = December 16, 1997
  | url = http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1997-12/sunflash.971216.3.xml
  | title = Sun to deliver enterprise-class solaris for intel's merced processor
  | access-date = September 10, 2006
  | archive-date = December 5, 2006
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061205030551/http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1997-12/sunflash.971216.3.xml
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref>

On November 28, 2007, [[IBM]], Sun, and Sine Nomine Associates demonstrated a preview of [[OpenSolaris for System z]] running on an [[IBM System z]] [[mainframe computer|mainframe]] under [[z/VM]],<ref>{{cite press release
 |url         = https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22718.wss
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080206163737/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22718.wss
 |url-status  = dead
 |archive-date = February 6, 2008
 |title       = OpenSolaris Runs on IBM Mainframe
 |publisher   = IBM
 |access-date  = January 21, 2018
 |date        = November 30, 2007
}}</ref> called ''Sirius'' (in analogy to the Polaris project, and also due to the primary developer's Australian nationality: [[HMS Sirius (1786)|HMS ''Sirius'']] of 1786 was a ship of the [[First Fleet]] to [[Australia]]). On October 17, 2008, a prototype release of Sirius was made available<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://opensolaris.org/os/project/systemz/
 |title       = OpenSolaris Project: Systemz
 |publisher   = OpenSolaris Project
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090825162814/http://opensolaris.org/os/project/systemz/
 |archive-date = August 25, 2009
}}</ref> and on November 19 the same year, IBM authorized the use of Sirius on System z [[Integrated Facility for Linux]] (IFL) processors.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/24/ibm_authorizes_mainframe_opensolaris/
 | title = IBM authorizes OpenSolaris on mainframes
 | date = November 24, 2008
 | access-date = November 24, 2008
 | work = [[The Register]]
 | archive-date = December 25, 2008
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081225042159/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/24/ibm_authorizes_mainframe_opensolaris/
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref>

Solaris also supports the [[Linux]] platform [[application binary interface]] (ABI), allowing Solaris to run native Linux [[object file|binaries]] on x86 systems. This feature is called ''Solaris Containers for Linux Applications'' (SCLA), based on the [[branded zones]] functionality introduced in Solaris 10 8/07.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/brandz_lae_faq/
 |title       = BrandZ/SCLA FAQ
 |access-date  = September 10, 2006
 |publisher   = OpenSolaris Project
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://archive.today/20061004053007/http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/brandz_lae_faq/
 |archive-date = October 4, 2006
}}</ref>