Blade Watch

Sun

SANTA CLARA, Calif. April 14, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) — in conjunction with its Open Network Systems launch — today announced new servers, integrated open storage and high-performance networking that bring scale, simplicity and savings to the HPC market, making Sun’s high performance technology capabilities available to a broader customer segment than ever before. Sun’s scalable new HPC systems, including the next-generation Sun Constellation System, are expected to power some of the world’s leading HPC facilities, and can address a broad range of HPC applications requiring high performance, high throughput, large memory and fast I/O. For more information on the Sun Constellation System and HPC solutions for clusters, storage and archive, please visit: http://www.sun.com/hpc

Sun is taking integration to a new level and providing leadership scalability, flexibility and compute density in a no-compromise HPC design, by combining the new dual-node Sun Blade X6275 server module powered by the ground-breaking Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, with the new Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand (IB) Quad Data Rate (QDR) Network Express Module (NEM), the Sun Blade 6048 chassis, the Sun Cooling Door system, the Lustre file system and Sun’s Open Storage portfolio. This scalable, efficient Sun Constellation System leverages advanced Sun technologies including next-generation Flash-based system performance design, IB QDR networking, an integrated Linux-based HPC software stack, and advanced cooling technologies to provide the highest level of integration and performance across computing, storage, networking and software. In addition, Sun Blade server nodes can be separately provisioned to run Linux, Windows, Solaris or OpenSolaris operating systems, while also giving users the flexibility to migrate nodes from one operating system to another as needed.

Very cool, Sun have announced a series of platform innovations to aid with Sun in HPC solutions, anything we can do to reduce the power consumption, increase server connectivity and scalability has to be a good thing. Do check it out.

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