Compute Ranch




24 x 7 x 365 availability (click image to enlarge)




Sun's Compute Ranches apply massive all UltraSPARC® architecture and all Solaris Operating Environment computing power to achieve three goals:
    1. Speed the development of new UltraSPARC® products
    2. Build in computing features and performance unmatched by other processors
    3. Bring higher levels of quality, reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) to Sun customers

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Compute Ranch (Click on a thumbnail to enlarge):

Custom racks to accommodate all
styles of systems

- 24 inch raised floors
- Overhead cabling
- Room air changes
  every 45 seconds

High density compute environment

"Sun on Sun"
 - UltraSPARC® Processors
 - Solaris Operating Environment
 - StorEdge Arrays
 - Sun Cluster software

UltraSPARC Movie
Design engineering is one of Sun's core competencies. Our relentless focus on design engineering excellence in a single microprocessor architecture allows ONLY Sun to offer its customers 15 years of binary compatibility in a proven 3rd generation, award-winning 64-bit processor.

Hear first hand from the experts of SPARC

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Key Highlights:
  • Accessed by a design team of over 1,000 engineers.
  • 3 Design Centers (Sunnyvale, CA; Austin, TX; Burlington, MA).
  • An average of 233,000 jobs/day.
  • 95-98% compute utilization (24x7x365).
  • Close to 3,000 SPARC/Solaris systems.
  • Over 10,000 total UltraSPARC processors with an average speed of approximately 1 GHz
  • Above 10 trillion compute cycles a second; near a quintillion cycles daily. 36 terabytes of RAM.
  • Over 70 High Availability (HA) NFS file server clusters, with FIVE 9s (99.999%) of uptime
  • Approaching 1.5 petabytes of disk storage. 250 EDA tools supported (both commercial and internal).
Note: These resources are being updated on a regular basis and the values may have changed

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» To read more about the Ranch, download the following brochure.
     http://www.sun.com/processors/ranch/brochure.pdf