Date: 26-Nov-2009   URL: www.sun.com/products/hpc/x64.html

Easy to Deploy HPC - Sun Fire x64 Servers

The Sun Fire X2100, X4100, and X4200 servers, the newest additions to the Sun Fire x64 server family, deliver a new level of industry standard computing to enterprises--the x64-Factor--by addressing energy efficiency, reliability and performance issues head on. These new servers along with the Sun Grid Rack System help customers accelerate the deployment of high-performance computing (HPC) and Web services applications, providing a new way of deploying Grid solutions, one rack at a time.

At a Glance

Sun Fire X64 Server
Product Name
Key Use
Key Features
  • Grid computing
  • Serving Web pages or applications
  • Security applications
  • Application development

  • List price starts at $745
  • Delivers optimal price/performance (see benchmarks).
  • Reduces acquisition and maintenance costs
  • Offers binary compatibility for application portability
  • Integrates superior, simplified management

  • Web Server
  • Application Server
  • HPTC/Grid
  • Database
  • Security
  • Development

  • Provides the highest performance level in its class, over 1.5 times the performance of Xeon-based servers (see benchmarks).
  • Highly reliable server that improve your service level
  • Up to 56 percent lowered power, cooling, and heat costs over Xeon servers

  • Application Servers
  • Database
  • Network Services
  • Compute Services
  • Infrastructure Services
  • Security

  • Provides the highest performance level in its class, over 1.5 times the performance of Xeon-based servers (see benchmarks).
  • Highly reliable server that improve your service levels
  • Up to 52 percent lowered power, cooling, and heat costs over Xeon servers

  • Grid computing
  • Serving Web pages or applications
  • Security applications
  • Horizontally scaled databases
  • Demanding technical jobs

  • Up to 2 Ultra320 SCSI disks, RAID capable
  • Two 10/100/1000-Mbps BaseT Ethernet ports
  • Lights out management with in-band and out-of-band capabilities
  • 2 PCI-X slots

  • Product creation (financial, EDA, MCAE, research) and service delivery (telecom, web)
  • Enterprise infrastructure, business intelligence, ERP/CRM
  • Server consolidation and virtualization
  • Compute farm for modeling and simulation

  • Performance with dual core at 2X performance against competitors Xeon MP based servers (see benchmarks).
  • Reliability and availability with redundant, hot-swap power, cooling. High availability with Sun Cluster
  • Remote managability with secured, remote, lights-out monitoring, control, firmware update

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