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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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Custom racks to accommodate all
styles of systems |
- 24 inch raised floors
- Overhead cabling
- Room air changes
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High density compute environment |
"Sun on Sun"
- UltraSPARC® Processors
- Solaris Operating Environment
- StorEdge Arrays
- Sun Cluster software |
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 Play Movie On-line |
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- 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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Press resources and photographs are available at:
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» To read more about the Ranch, download the following brochure.
http://www.sun.com/processors/ranch/brochure.pdf
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