A World of Blades Choices
Choose from multiple processors (UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon), operating systems (Solaris, Linux, Windows, VMware), platforms, networking and storage, and mix them in a single chassis. For ultimate flexibility, give each blade a unique I/O—a capability that only Sun can offer.
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Leading Compute Capacity
Leading compute capacity means dramatically improved performance. Sun Blade systems deliver up to 128 CMT threads per blade or 24 x64 cores per blade, and up to 1152 cores in the Sun Blade 6048 chassis, resulting in up to 70% more compute density than the competing solutions. Ideal for entry-level installations up to massive, Petascale computing HPC environments.
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More Memory and I/O Capacity
Get up to 2x the memory for virtualization and memory-intensive workloads, and up to 3x the I/O bandwidth of competing blade servers. You can pick a blade that will meet your application requirements: Sun offers up to 256 GB of RAM and up to 270 Gb/s throughput to handle the most demanding, throughput-hungry applications.
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Your Pick of Applications
Run practically any datacenter application at the highest service levels with less cost. Sun Blade server modules support many configurations, from the Web tier to the back office, from enterprise datacenters to high performance computing clusters.
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Easy Upgrades and System Expansion
Externally accessible, hot-pluggable modules allow for upgrades on-the-fly, without disturbing the operation of the system.
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Power and Cooling Savings
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Transparent Management
Sun Blade Transparent Management eliminates an extra layer of traditional chassis-level management complexity, and provides a unified solution for the Sun blades and rack servers, storage and networking.
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Unlimited Scalability
Your initial deployment can consist of a single blade in a chassis. As your needs grow, you can easily scale to even the largest HPC deployments with multi PetaFLOPs in the Sun Constellation System—all with off-the-shelf technology including Sun's complete QDR InfiniBand product portfolio.
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Highest Security
Integrated, on-chip cryptographic acceleration that supports ten industry standards, including NSA-approved security ciphers, comes at no additional cost. Sun is the only vendor to bundle Virtualization, Crypto, and OS at no extra cost.
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Breakthrough Virtualization
World's first blade with built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) and Solaris Containers virtualization technologies. Virtualization is FREE and built-in, saving up to $13,000 per blade.
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