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Sun Blade 6048 Chassis

Sun Blade 6048 Chassis

Take a closer look at the industry's most scalable, powerful, and efficient blade system, designed to scale from a Departmental Cluster to PetaScale Computing, packaged as an integrated product. Its radical new unibody chassis/rack design saves space and weight (~500 lbs less per rack when compared to conventional chassis and rack combinations). Its Sun Blade Independent I/O provides the highest I/O throughput per chassis at 30.72Tbps and is the first blade based on an open PCI-E Industry standard I/O architecture.


At A Glance

  • The compute foundation of the Sun Constellation System offering up to 7 TFLOPS of peak performance per rack
  • Unibody chassis/rack design
  • Runs up to 48 Sun Blade server modules, up to 768 processing cores, per rack
  • Minimized power and cooling needs with up to 17 percent greater power efficiency
  • 50 percent more compute performance than the HP c-Class platform per rack
  • 71 percent more compute performance than IBM BladeCenter H platform per rack
  • Works with all Sun Blade 6000 server modules
  • Installation services that help you fully utilize the industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies and open standards

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Sun Blade 6048 Chassis Gallery

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Sun Blade 6048 Chassis Gallery


Virtual Tour

Explore the features and design of the Sun Blade 6048 modular system.

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Power Calculator

Configure your Sun Blade 6048 Modular System to see just how low your power consumption can go.


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