Designed for smaller and mid-size commercial HPC deployments, the Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24 binds Sun's blade servers and storage systems into a highly scalable, space-efficient, flexible, high-performance supercomputer. It scales from two to 288 blade servers in cohesive clusters that can be used to drive virtually any mission-critical commercial application or compute-intensive scientific project.
At a Glance
When combined with the Sun Blade 6048 modular system, this 1RU 19" InfiniBand switch delivers a high performance switching solution for two up to 288 blade servers
Extremely low latency using industry-standard IB transport, and commodity processors from AMD, Intel, and Sun
Substitutes competitive 12RU solutions and hundreds of cables with 1/3 number of cables and only occupies up to four rack units for clusters of up to 288 blade servers
Open: Solaris, Linux, Open-MPI, and Open-Fabrics stack
Complements the petascale Sun Datacenter Switch 3456 for large HPC installations
The Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24 joins the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456 as part of Sun's datacenter switch family. When attached to the Sun Blade 6048 modular system, these switches become the center of the Sun Constellation System, the world's first open Petascale computing environment. They work together to combine ultra-dense high performance computing, networking, storage, and software into an integrated system that delivers massive scalability, dramatically reduced complexity, and breakthrough economics – from departmental use to the largest HPC deployments.
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