Tuesday June 23, 2009 Sun Constellation System Steps Up with M9
Sun is announcing new products today that demonstrate continued innovation and expansion of the Sun Constellation System. Designed using Sun's Open Network Systems architecture, the Sun Constellation System is one of the most integrated and balanced HPC system available today. Full Story
Highlights include:
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand QDR Switch 648: Delivers extreme density, performance and reduced deployment complexity with up to three times more ports per rack, four and a half times more system bandwidth, and up to 3:1 cable reduction than competitive Double Data Rate (DDR) switch solutions.
Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0: Makes it faster and easier to install Linux-based environments by providing an integrated Linux software stack for HPC solutions, and gives customers a choice of running SUSE 10, CentOS and Red Hat Linux.
Lustre 1.8.: Introduces several robust new features to improve system performance and functionality, including the adaptive timeouts feature, client interoperability feature, OSS read cache feature and Version-based Recovery (VBR).
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( June 23, 2009 05:21 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
