Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 25 April 2005

V40z, dual core Opteron

http://www.sun.com/v40z
The latest benchmarking data is available at:
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v40z/benchmarks.html

The press release could be found at:
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-04/sunflash.20050421.1.html

Sun announces dual-core processor support for the Sun Fire[tm] V40z server, at the same time when AMD announces dual-core AMD Opteron processors. In this announcement and a follow-on one, Sun is publishing two world-record benchmarks on Sun Fire V40z server powered by dual-core. One benchmark demonstrates that this server performs at 2.5X that of competitive 4-socket Intel Xeon MP (Potomac) based servers and 3X that of 8-way x86 (Galatin) based servers. The Sun Fire V40z server also demonstrates linear CPU scalability from single-core to dual-core running at the same clock speed, on Solaris (internal data). With Sun Fire V40z servers powered by dual-core, customers can save up to $2.5M per year in power and cooling costs when deployed in a 10,000-core grid, compared with 10,000 cores deployed using 4-socket Xeon MP (Potomac) based servers. Solaris 9, Solaris 10, and selected versions of Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise Linux will be supported. Windows Server 2003 will be certified. When run with Sun Cluster on Solaris 9, the Sun Fire V40z server powered by dual-core is a highly available 8-way server that offers high performance, high reliability, and flexibility for server consolidation, data management, and enterprise applications.

Since the Sun Fire V40z server powered by dual-core uses the same system chassis, memory, disks, and I/O as the single-core 852 version of the V40z server, there is only an incremental price to support dual-core processors. Upgrade from single-core 852 to dual-core simply involves changing the CPUs and upgrading the firmware. An upgrade will be offered in the summer. Also, dual-core support will be made available on the Sun Fire V20z server in the summer.

See also:
Solaris 10 Now Available for AMD's New Dual Core Opteron Platform
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-04/sunflash.20050421.2.html

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Rosetta Scientific Leadership Series

Join us for the Rosetta Scientific Leadership Series meeting in Seattle, a seminar featuring informatics solutions for gene and protein expression analysis. For details about speakers and topics, please visit our website.

Date: May 24, 2005
Venue: The Grand Hyatt Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington
Registration: Free of charge
URL: http://www.rosettabio.com/conferences/default.htm

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Promotion from TimeLogic FPGA Bioinformatics Accelerator

www.timelogic.com/sunpromo/

Powerful bioinformatics solutions from Sun Microsystems and TimeLogic.

DeCypher Benchmarks on Sun hosts: http://www.timelogic.com/performance/index.html

Until June 15th 2005, we're offering extreme savings on Sun servers and any combination of DeCypher application modules and DeCypher Engine(s). Drive BLAST, HMM, Smith-Waterman or GeneDetective analyses with the power of thousands of CPUs.

Get 20% off one module, and 30% of additional modules. Order BLAST, SW, HMM and GeneDetective and get 30% of all four modules.

This is an ideal time to upgrade from Paracel (GeneMatcher and BlastMachine) systems that have been discontinued.

Contact: sales@timelogic.com

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May Meetings, Sign Up NOW!

IWNG, Santorini, Greece, "Neuroimaging and Genomics", 5/8-12/2005
www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/iwng

VBI, VA "Webservices for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics", 5/26-27/2005 http://www.conted.vt.edu/webconference.vbi/

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HOT! Academic Deals Expire End of June

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/promotions/hardware.html

Here is where you will find the screaming deals on servers through June 30th including V240, V490 and V890.  The V440 and V880 promos expire Mid May.

Also, the US Matching Grant program runs through May 31st.
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/promotions/matchinggrant/

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