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White Paper: Pathways to Petascale

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The world's first open petascale computing environment, the Sun Constellation System combines ultra-dense high-performance computing, networking, storage and software into an integrated system that delivers massive scalability, dramatically reduced complexity, and breakthrough economics.

At a Glance

Ultra Dense Blades for fast computation
QDR InfiniBand network options for fast interconnect
Lustre File System for fast parallel storage
Integrated flash technologies for fast local compute node I/O
Sun HPC Software Stack for fast and simple deployment

Featured Technologies

New! Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 72
New! Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36
New! Sun Blade x6275 with Built-In GbE
New! Sun Lustre Storage System
Sun Grid Engine

Key Benefits

Massive Performance & Scalability: Scale from small blade clusters to over 2 Pflops
Flexibility: Utilize three different blades (SPARC, Intel and AMD) in the same chassis
Cabling Simplicity: Up to 6 times InfiniBand cable reduction. Up to 38:1 reduction in InfiniBand switching elements.
Density: 20% floor space reduction, 50% more compute density.
Freedom of Choice: Plug and play compute nodes, operating environments, storage, workload management software, and high-speed interconnect

Key Applications

Research
Climate Modelling
Astrophysics
Oil Exploration
Meteorology
Materials science

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