Here's history in the making: Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware running on single and multi-core processors by Sun, AMD, and Intel, in one chassis. Choose from the 10-blade, 10RU Sun Blade 6000 System or the 48-blade, 42RU Sun Blade 6048 System. You've never had so many choices in one blade system.
At a Glance
Maximum flexibility - SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems
Most open blade platform with industry standard PCIe ExpressModule
Minimized power and cooling needs with up to 17 percent greater power efficiency
Up to double the memory and I/O capacity of competing blades and rackmounts
Run up to 48 Sun Blade server modules, up to 768 processing cores, per rack
The compute foundation of the Sun Constellation System offering up to 7 TFLOPS of peak performance per rack
Installation services that help you fully utilize the industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies and open standards
The Sun Blade 6000 family has already achieved an impressive collection of test results and records. For instance, the Sun Blade X6250 server module demonstrates World Record x86 integer performance on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark. [1]
The Sun Blade 6048 modular system is the core computing architecture of the Sun Constellation System, the world’s first open PetaScale Computing environment, with ultra-dense blade computing and integrated InfiniBand switching, high-performance storage and software as a complete solution.