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Sun Constellation System

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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 648
New! Sun x64 Blades
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