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The Sun Constellation System is the world's first open Petascale computing environment combining ultra-dense high performance computing, networking, storage and software into an integrated system that delivers massive scalability, dramatically reduced complexity and breakthrough economics. The Sun Constellation System brings key innovations to market and is designed for radical simplicity that puts a new level of high-performance computing within reach for customers, whether they are pushing the limits for what is physically possible or if they are hungry for more performance from HPC solutions in production today.
Supercomputing Press Announcement
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced two new additions to its HPC portfolio designed to address the extreme computation, scale and storage requirements of today's HPC customer. The Sun(TM) Constellation System and the Sun StorageTek 5800 system.
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Initial Sun Constellation Systems Installations
Key Benefits
Massive Performance & Scalability — Using the latest technology from AMD and Intel, the Sun Constellation System allows you to scale from small blade clusters to petascale environments. The same components can take you from teraflops to petaflops.
Break-through Economics – Sun gives customers more efficient HPC solutions with increased system utilization, lower TCO and improved reduced energy utilization to minimize power and cooling costs, resulting in big savings to a customers bottom line. Cost savings can also come from
- Reduced space requirements from ultra-dense blade servers
- Reduced complexity by using ultra-dense IB switching elements
- Reduced time to use by working with the Sun Customer Ready program.
Dramatically Reduced Complexity and Increased Reliability — Suns products and services increase reliability through innovation, including reducing cabling requirements by 1/6 th, switching elements by and order of magnitude, and cooling on the Sun Blade servers.
Open — The Sun Constellation System architecture allows customers to "plug & play" with key components such as compute nodes, operating environment, storage, workload management software and high speed interconnect. Only Sun has such an open environment & attitude allowing customers complete freedom of choice.
Highlighted Sun Products for the Sun Constellation System
Sun Blade 6048 Modular System
The Sun Blade 6048 Modular System is power optimized and provides the highest compute density platform for extreme performance. Supporting the fastest processors: SPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon, it is a robust system designed for reliability and availability. With capacity for 192 sockets per rack, the Sun Blade 6048 system provides 50% more compute power than HP c-Class and 71% more than IBM BladeCenterH. And, if this wasn't enough, it runs general purpose software, unlike other super computers that require custom compiles and tuning. In addition, it's unique unibody chassis/rack design saves 500 lbs per rack while providing 20% greater density.
Unique to the Sun Blade 6048 modular system is the Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand Switched Network Express Module, the Industry's Only Chassis
Integrated Leaf Switch. It is the Fastest HCA and provides the lowest cost per port with Sun Datacenter Switch 3456. Leveraging x8 PCI
Express I/O, it connects 12 PCIe DDR dual port HCAs to two embedded 24 port of DDR switches with only 8 physical 12x connectors for maximum
resiliency and HPC scalability. It also has 12 passthru Gigabit Ethernet ports. The compact design of the Sun Blade 6048 IB Switched
NEM maximizes chassis utilization.
Sun Datacenter Switches
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Sun Datacenter Switch 3456
The world's largest InfiniBand core switch. With the capacity for 3456 server nodes, the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456 reduces the cost, power,
and footprint of deploying very large scale HPC fabrics by eliminating hundreds of discrete switches and thousands of cables.
- Ideally suited for the Sun Blade 6048 modular system to deliver an open PetaScale architecture
- Highly scalable supporting up to four Sun Datacenter Switches and up to 13,824 server nodes
- Replaces 300 discrete InfiniBand switches and thousands of cables with a single core switch
- A 3:1 reduction of physical ports and cables for server connectivity
- Open: Solaris, Linux, Open-MPI, Open-Fabrics stack
- Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24
This newest addition to Sun's InfiniBand datacenter switches, the Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24 binds Sun's blade servers and storage systems into a highly scalable, space-efficient, flexible, high-performance supercomputer perfectly suited for smaller and mid-size commercial HPC deployments.
- When combined with the Sun Blade 6048 modular system, this 1 RU 19" InfiniBand switch delivers a solution for 2 up to 288 blade servers for small size HPC deployments
- Extremely low latency using industry-standard IB transport, and commodity processors from AMD, Intel, and SPARC
- Substitutes competitive 12 RU solutions and hundreds of cables with 1/3 number of cables and 1 up to 4 rack units
- Open: Solaris, Linux, Open-MPI, Open-Fabrics stack
Sun Fire X4500
By integrating state of the art server and storage technologies, the Sun Fire X4500 Server delivers the remarkable performance of a four-way x64 server and the highest storage density available, with up to 48 TB in 4U of rack space. This system also delivers incredibly high data throughput for about half the cost of traditional solutions.
Sun Blade 6000 System
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System is an open blade architecture that
supports SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processors as well as multiple operating systems. It gives you the flexibility to run virtually any datacenter application while minimizing space and cooling requirements and delivering high service levels for your applications. With a modular design and energy-efficient architecture, you can add computing power on demand — without adding administrative complexity or the costs associated with replacing or reconfiguring traditional rackmounted servers and towers.
Sun StorageTek 5800 System
When it comes to fixed content, you need fast, continuous, 24x7 access. You don't need skyrocketing costs, exorbitant license fees, and technology migration nightmares. With the cost-effective Sun StorageTek 5800 system, you can lower costs and focus on your business, instead of your archiving infrastructure, reducing TCO.
Sun Datacenter Express Services
Datacenter Express Services is an end-to-end offering that provides design, rapid deployment, and management of your IT Infrastructure.
Leveraging the Sun Customer Ready program, Sun offers factory integration, testing, and configuration of Sun and third-party hardware and software systems.
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