Sun's New Quad-Core Opteron Systems
Sun's latest addition to its platform-independent strategy is a new family of high-performance, energy-efficient Sun Fire x64 servers based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. The Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240, Sun Fire X4440 systems and the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module raise the bar for price/performance, efficiency, and scalability for x64 servers.
Senior product line director David Simmons talks about the features and benefits for customers who buy Sun's new AMD Opteron-powered servers.
The new systems run a variety of compute-intensive applications in small footprints that make datacenters more powerful and more cost-effective. They have headroom to add I/O, storage, and memory, making them highly scalable, and they feature include hot swappable components, reduced vibration, improved airflow, and easier management, servicing.
The Sun Fire X4140 supports multiple applications with twice the memory, storage, networking, and I/O slots of other servers on the market. The Sun Fire X4240 is an efficient choice for storage because it offers twice the storage capacity of competing servers and could simultaneously be used for online transaction processing, business intelligence, and other applications processing. The Sun Fire X4440 is the only 4-socket x64 server with AMD Opteron processors that fits in a 2RU space and the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module is the first x64 blade that has six PCIe slots, and can scale to 32 DIMM.
The x64 Sun Fire servers support more virtual machines per processor because they have higher memory capacity than any x64 servers on the market. The new systems are powerful, scalable, eco-friendly, and versatile, and capable of concurrently running Solaris 10 OS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and VMware.
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Summing Up The Customer Benefits
Senior director of software marketing Liz Matthews summarizes the direction of Sun's relationships with AMD and Intel, and talks about the benefits to customers.
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Sun's customers don't have to worry about that because Sun is the only vendor in the industry fully prepared to meet whatever need they have as they grow and change. Sun builds server platforms based on AMD and Intel processors, as well as Sun SPARC technology that can run virtually any operating system and software product around. In addition, Sun's software including the Solaris operating system, Java, MySQL, and other products, are designed to run on nearly any platform.
And, Sun's sales and service organization is fully equipped to transition customers from the technology they have to the right technology for their needs. Stories from its customers demonstrate the benefits of Sun's strategy.
SmugMug
This startup Web-based premium photo sharing site couldn't function with the unreliable servers it was using, so it turned to Sun for reliable, fast servers with big storage capacity, finally settling on AMD Opteron-powered M2200 servers.
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Wolfram Research (Mathematica)
Wolfram tells its Mathematica customers that Sun quad-core x64 computers are the perfect solution for high-performance data mining and other financial and scientific applications.
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New Energy (Ventyx)
Energy model simulations require thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, and New Energy software (their name recently changed to Ventyx) found just the right combination by running Solaris on Opteron-based computers.
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Paramount Pictures
Paramount's project to produce the animated "Barnyard" film proved too complex for the company's original 32-bit Windows solution, and Sun stepped in with an X64 solution that quickly turned the project around and made it successful.
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Gracenote
Digital devices use Gracenote to recognizes video and audio content, and retrieve basic information about it online. The company has to process 60 to 90 million queries a day, with spikes approaching 200 million on holidays, so its processing needs are enormous, and well served by Sun x64 Opteron-powered servers running Solaris.
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