Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand Quad Data Rate Switched Network Express Module

At a Glance

• The industry's only chassis-integrated leaf switch supports Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand and provides passthrough Gigabit Ethernet connection to each server
• Integral part of the end-to-end QDR HPC solution, the Sun Constellation System
• Unprecedented scalability critical to Petascale deployments for up to 5,000+ node clusters.
• Compact design to maximize chassis utilization
• Increased resiliency to allow connectivity of up to eight ultradense QDR switches
• Up to 6:1 reduction in cabling to simplify cable management
• Designed to support varied topologies including "Fat Tree" and mesh topologies.
• Part of the complete line of Sun's InfiniBand products and of the Open Network Blade I/O solutions

Key Applications

• High-Performance Compute clusters
• Clustered databases
• InfiniBand (IB) grid architectures
• Storage solutions

Spotlight

Integrated into the Sun Blade 6048 Modular System

This InfiniBand QDR NEM is part of the Sun Blade 6048 modular system, offering flexibility, performance, and superior investment protection to help improve HPC datacenters' efficiency and utilization. With unrivaled server density in a 42U footprint, the system leverages the performance, flexibility, scalability, easy serviceability and manageability of Sun's blade servers.

The consolidation and power efficiency of the Sun Blade 6048 IB QDR Switched NEM boosts the power of the Sun Blade 6048 modular system. The NEM also provides investment protection because it can scale up from enterprise clustering to high-performance computing with 24 ports of Gigabit Ethernet and support for up to four NEMs per chassis, delivering 1,536 Gbps of throughput per NEM.