Sun Extends HPC Leadership With New Customers And Breakthrough Performance Results, Delivers Fastest Storage System On The PlanetTop500 List Shows 39 out of Top 50 Supercomputers Choose Sun Storage PORTLAND, Oregon SC09, November 17, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new products and technologies that extend its HPC leadership, maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems. In addition, Sun is announcing new HPC customers, world-record performance and Top 500 List results that demonstrate its relentless system innovation. Sun doubled its number of entries since the June 2009 list with a total of 11 deployments providing nearly 2 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS). For more information on Sun's HPC solutions, please visit: http://www.sun.com/hpc.
"Sun servers, storage and networking continue to fuel world record HPC performance and provide the building blocks for dozens of new Sun Constellation System deployments around the globe," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. "Corporations and scientists alike are using Sun server and storage innovation to gain competitive advantage and tackle the world's most complex problems." Sun at Supercomputing 2009 Sun is featuring a range of its own HPC technologies at its booth (#435), including servers, unified storage, flash, networking and software, as well as third-party solutions like UniCluster by Univa, ideal for HPC applications. For more information on the innovative HPC technologies Sun is showcasing at Supercomputing 2009, visit: http://www.sun.com/hpc or the Sun booth (#435) for live demonstrations. Sun's Supercomputing 2009 online press kit can be found at: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2009-1117/. New products and solutions announced today include :
Sun Storage 7410 Delivers Outstanding Performance with Increased Efficiency and Capacity Sun has doubled the performance of the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system by upgrading up to four six-core AMD Opteron(TM) CPU processors and adding new 2 TB drives. With more processing cores, twice the DRAM cache – up to 512 gigabytes (GB) and double the storage capacity – 576 TB/s, the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system delivers increased performance and system bandwidth. With Sun's innovative flash technologies such as Sun(TM) Storage F5100 Flash Array and Solid State disk (SSDs) recent benchmark results have demonstrated performance increases up to 107 percent running common MCAE applications such as MSC-Nastran and Ansys(1). Sun Doubles Presence on Top500 List Sun technologies are powering some of the largest HPC systems in the world, with nearly 2 PetaFLOPS of performance represented on the latest Top500 list released today. Sun doubled its overall presence on the list, including CLUMEQ (Canada), ETH (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Sandia National Laboratories and University of Zurich. Sun is also announcing new HPC customers today, including:
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
CLUMEQ
German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth System Research Sun Systems Shine with New Records on HPC Benchmarks Ranging from desktop to some of the world's largest installed systems, Sun Constellation Systems deliver outstanding performance results while demonstrating near-linear scalability and efficiency on various HPC workloads. Today, Sun announced the following benchmark results: NAMD: The Sun Blade 6048 chassis with 48 Sun Fire X6275 blade servers (768 cores) and QDR InfiniBand, delivered the best published result on the molecular modeling NAMD benchmark, with up to 95 percent better performance than double data rate (DDR) IB and a scalability efficiency of nearly 80 percent(2). FLUENT and RADIOSS: Sixteen Sun Fire X6275 blade servers (256 cores) outpaced a competing SGI Altix ICE system with the same number of cores, on one of the most popular MCAE applications - FLUENT. FLUENT software solves fluid flow problems and is based on a numerical technique called computational fluid dynamics (CFD) which is heavily used in the automotive, aerospace and consumer products industries(3). In addition, Sun's cluster beat the SGI Altix ICE system using the prominent MCAE 'crash' code, RADIOSS from Altair, by over 40 percent(4). Reverse Time Migration (RTM): The Sun Blade 6048 chassis with 12 Sun Fire X6275 blade servers, interconnected via integrated InfiniBand QDR Host Channel Adapters (HCA) and Quad Data Rate Switched Network Express Modules (QNEM) and using Lustre file system delivered up to 20x performance improvement over traditional Gigabit Ethernet/Network File System configurations. RTM is the most popular seismic processing algorithm often used in geophysical studies to produce quality images of complex substructures. Sun's Constellation System offers a unique platform for customers looking to reduce their seismic processing time by a factor of two (5). SPECviewperf 10 and SPECfp2006: The Sun Ultra27 workstation delivers best performance in its class on SPECviewperf 10 3D graphics rendering benchmark. Running OpenGL on Windows Vista OS, Sun's workstation surpassed similar HP and Dell products on six out of eight tests(6). The Sun workstation, with OpenSolaris and Sun Studio software, continues to hold a single chip world record on the SPECfp2006 benchmark, making it an ideal platform for floating point intensive applications used by CAD/CAM designers and MCAE engineers alike(7). To see all HPC benchmark results on Sun's Open Network Systems, please visit: http://www.sun.com/hpc/benchmarks About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
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