Product Review: Sun Fire X4270/4275

ZDNet reviews Sun's latest Nehalem servers:

"Sun’s new Xeon 5500 lineup is pretty impressive, starting with an unusual low-cost 1U server (the Sun Fire X2270) with a restricted specification for those on a budget . Higher up the scale comes a more configurable up-market 1U offering (the X4170) aimed, primarily, at HPC buyers. For this review we're concentrating on the 2U space where Sun, again, has two models to choose from." Full Story

Sun and Emerson Design Advanced Datacenter for Sandia

Sun Microsystems has announded that an alliance with Emerson Network Power has led to a jointly designed, energy-efficient solution for Sandia National Laboratories. Specifically, the bundled solution includes Sun Cooling Door systems, Sun Blade X6275 server modules and Emerson's Liebert XD precision cooling technology, which removes heat at the source, requires minimal datacenter footprint and helps avoid costly datacenter makeovers.

Dr. Robert W. Leland, director, Computing and Network Services Center at Sandia National Laboratories, an organization served by the joint Sun-Emerson Network Power alliance, explains, "Right away, we recognized the great value of our association with Sun and Emerson Network Power, and we believe that our collaboration on a new and highly advanced HPC (High-Performance Computing) solution will provide leading-edge performance to our customers with substantially less environmental impact and much lower lifetime cost than the other options we had considered."

Globally, datacenter energy consumption is driven by businesses' demand for greater computing capacity and increased IT centralization. When combined with increasing global electricity prices, the financial implications are significant. Full Story.

To learn more about Sandia's new datacenter, check out this Podcast.

New Blog on HPC Architecture

Jongjun Son has a new blog on HPC architecture. Informative stuff, even if English is your second language ;-)