Quotes for Servers & Blades Powered by Intel Xeon 5500 Series

BOM

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and The Australian National University (ANU) have chosen to implement two interoperable Sun Constellation Systems, which include the Sun Blade X6275. "By installing over 2500 of these blades in total between the two sites, our scientists are better able to integrate research conducted at the ANU facility with our operational systems. The Bureau's Constellation System will assist us in improving our weather prediction capabilities through enabling much higher resolution models than we can execute today," said Phil Tannenbaum, Chief Information Officer at the Bureau of Meteorology.

Sandia

"Sandia National Labs is very excited to be one of the first customers for the new Sun Blade X6275 and Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand QDR Switched Network Express Module. In addition, we will also be implementing the Lustre parallel file system to meet our stringent IO bandwidth requirements. We anticipate that the new high performance capacity computing systems we are developing in partnership with Sun -- which make use of the new Intel Xeon 5500 series, on-board Infiniband communication, Sun's new IB switches and the innovative Sun cooling doors -- will provide us a tremendous increase in our space, power and cost efficiency." says  Dr. Robert W. Leland,  Director, Computing and Network Services Center, Sandia National Laboratories.

Galileu Project

"The universities involved in the Galileu Project are very honored to be among the first to implement the new Sun Blade X6275 based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series", said Heitor Augusto de Araújo Filho, Technical Consultant of Petrobras Research Center. "The combination of extremely fast computing power, coupled with onboard Infiniband, the Lustre parallel file system and the Solaris ZFS will allow our researchers to perform even more complex simulations, develop new engineering concepts, and increase the validity of offshore engineering models."