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]
Datacenters at peak performance and efficiency at half the cost
Sun Refresh Service is the industry's first IT system subscription service that enables you to get maximum performance and efficiency from your data center at half the cost of traditional lease and refresh offerings. The service enables you to acquire the right amount of computing capacity to serve your needs today and then take full advantage of the rapid improvements in performance and efficiency to stay ahead of the competition year after year.
Sun offers a new recipe for success - the Solaris OS + AMP (Solaris 10 OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). For customers committed to the open AMP stack, this "recipe" provides the same Web applications they know and use, but on a more secure open-source platform with greater scalability. Sun provides complete step-by-step instructions to get up and running more quickly when building and deploying Web applications. Sun offers five easy steps to quickly develop Web applications.
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.
