Monday April 27, 2009 HPC Offer of the Week: 3 Sun Blade X6440 Servers for the Price of 2
Save over $15,000 on the blades with twice the memory and I/O capacity of competing systems. Ideal for demanding, memory intensive applications such as HPC, grid computing, and virtualization, the Sun Blade X6440 Server Module with four AMD high-performance Quad-Core Opteron processors, thirty-two memory slots, 4 PCIe (X8) buses, 4 SAS interfaces, and 2 GbE links delivers:
* Up to double the memory (256 GB) of competing 4-socket blade servers
* Up to twice the I/O capacity (142 Gb/sec) of competing blade and rackmount servers
* Choice of Operating Systems including Solaris 10 OS, Linux, VMware, and Windows
* Choice of 10-slot and 48-slot blade server chassis, Sun Blade 6000 and Sun Blade 6048 Modular Systems, in which the Sun Blade X6440 can be mixed with other blades
