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The Sun Fire V20z Compute Grid Rack solution for Education and Research provides an excellent high performance platform for a broad range of scientific and engineering applications in disciplines such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and medicine, in petroleum, mechanical and electrical engineering, and in applied mathematics and economics. These pre-configured clusters are integrated in Sun's factory through the Customer Ready System program. Add-on options to the standard configurations, and other customizations, are available.
Compute Grid Rack Solution for Education |
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16 x 1 dual-CPU SMP AMD Opteron 248 CPU (32 processor system). Each node has 4 GB of memory, 1 x 36 GB disk storage, 2 x PCI-x channels, rack, 48-way Gigabit Ethernet switch, software and factory integration services. Save more than 30% off the retail price!
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32 x 1 dual-CPU SMP AMD Opteron 248 CPU (64 processor system) Each node has 4 GB of memory, 1 x 36 GB disk storage, 2 x PCI-x channels, rack, 48-way Gigabit Ethernet switch, software and factory integration services. Save more than 30 % off the retail price!
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Software - Both configurations include:
- Solaris9 for x86 operating system
- Sun N1 Grid Engine 5.3 workload management software.
Options:
- A Myrinet 16-way or 32-way high bandwidth, low-latency switch from Myricom, Inc. is available as an add-on option to enable parallel applications which require a fast cluster interconnect.
- A specially-priced memory upgrade from 4 GB to 8 GB per Sun Fire V20z is also available to Education customers.
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Sun Fire V20z Server
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Customer References
"At the San Diego Supercompter Center, we work with a large range of scientists who are tackling some of the most computationally- and data-intensive problems in biology, physics, chemistry, and other key disciplines. Sun's prepackaged Opteron clusters allows these researchers to deploy, manage, and, more importantly, utilize personalized computing environments that complement the capabilities of unique resources found in centers. At SDSC, we've developed the Rocks Clustering Toolkit which enables this type of capability on high-performance commodity-based platforms, such as Sun's Opteron pre-configured offering. We're excited about this announcement because it shows just how far and how capable cluster-based computing has come in the last few years."
Dr. Philip Papadopoulos
Program Director
Grid and Cluster Computing
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University of Notre Dame Envisioning the Future Topologies of Network Computing (PDF)
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