Sun x64 Open Network Systems for Web Infrastructure
See inside the new Xeon 5500-based systems, and learn about the benefits of these high-performance, Flash-ready, energy-efficient x64 blades and servers.
Sun x64 Open Network Systems for Virtualization
Find out how the new x64 servers are optimized for enterprise virtualization to improve your datacenter.
A Xeon 5500-Based Server for Every Need
Sun's seven Xeon 5500-based systems are faster than ever and designed to meet the needs of even the most demanding virtualization, enterprise, Web, and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. They are as much as three times as fast as systems built on previous Intel Xeon chips, extremely efficient, and highly scalable:
- Sun Fire X4270 server is ideal for branch office or departmental needs, and for horizontally-scaled datacenter consolidation and virtualization.
- Sun Blade X6270 server module provides twice as much memory capacity as competing blades.
- Sun Fire X4170 server is a 1U rack system that saves as much as 75 percent of rack space and consumes 60 percent less energy at half the cost of comparable 4-socket, 4U systems.
- Sun Fire X2270 server offers the greatest energy savings and highest capacity of comparable systems for Web architectures and HPC clusters.
- Sun Fire X4275 server delivers 12TB of raw storage for less than $1 per GB of storage, so it is ideal for streaming multimedia applications.
- Sun Ultra 27 workstation offers unbeatable visualization performance with as much as 12GB of main memory and 4GB of graphics memory.
- Sun Blade X6275 server module is the first blade server to support onboard quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand for extreme performance and power efficiency for HPC applications.
Solaris Optimized for Intel Xeon 5500
The Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris have been optimized to take full advantage of the performance, energy efficiency, and reliability enhancements of Intel's new Xeon 5500 processor, enabling Solaris-based systems to automatically use Intel's new Quick Path Interconnect, Turbo Boost, and Hyper-Threading technologies to improve performance and scalability.
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Sun x64 Open Network Systems for HPC
Watch a demonstration of the new x64 Sun Blade server modules that are high-density, low-latency, and fast enough to meet even the most challenging high-performance computing demands.
Sun Blades Now with Built-In Networking
The new Sun Blades have built-in low-latency, high-performance networking called Sun Virtual Network Express Module (NEM), which can significantly reduce the cost and complexity of deploying a large-scale blade solution into an existing network fabric. Sun is the first vendor to deliver blades with integrated networking.
- Sun Blade 6000 Virtual Network Express Module (NEM) removes a full switching layer from the network infrastructure.
- Sun Blade 6048 Quad Data Rate InfiniBand NEM (QNEM) is designed for the Sun Blade 6048 Modular System and can scale from a single chassis to compute clusters with more than 5000 nodes.
- Sun Quad Data Rate IB and Host Channel Adaptors (QDR HCA) extend quad data rate functionality to blade and rack server compute nodes.
Cooling Racks with New Thermal Management Technology
Because much of the energy consumed by a datacenter goes toward keeping server racks cooled, Sun has designed Sun Cooling Doors, a new thermal management technology for the Sun Blade 6048 Modular System that makes rack cooling more efficient and cost effective.
The Sun Cooling Door can handle as much as 35 kilowatts per rack, which increases effective compute density by up to 70 percent compared to traditional in-row datacenter cooling options. Also, it can make use of either existing chilled-water infrastructures or the more eco-friendly refrigerant gas.
Evolving Sun's Open Network Systems Approach
Sun's Open Network Systems strategy takes the "Network is the Computer" philosophy to the next level. It delivers speed via Open Storage platforms and other Sun technologies like Flash-based solid state disks. It introduces simplicity via integrated network technologies. And it offers savings via advanced thermal management and the Solaris OS.
Start Small and Scale Big with Sun Blades
Find out how you can start with just a few Sun server blades and add compute power on the fly as your company needs it.
Making Servers Fast and Green
Sun's new x64 blade systems and servers have integrated Flash and solid state disk (SSD) technologies. This translates into as much as 70 times faster response rates, eight times better throughput, and as much as 38 percent less power consumption than servers with traditional spinning hard disk drives. When Flash-ready systems are used as Open Storage platforms, they combine blazingly fast performance and huge storage density with a surprisingly low cost per gigabyte.
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