Sun Microsystems, earlier this week, announced the new SPARC64 VII based M9000, M8000, M5000 and M4000 servers. This is a great day for those customers who want to run HPC applications on SMP severs that have huge memory footprint.
You can find read more at:
http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2008-0714/feature/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2008jul14_sparc_read
and
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-07/sunflash.20080714.1.xml
Do not miss out the High Performance Linpack result at:
href="http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/m9000/benchmarks.jsp?display=6#6
The older SPARC64 VI based M9000 server has been used for HPC at the National Cheng Keung University of Taiwan and a few other customer sites. With the 2 TFlop power we can surely expect more high-end SMP based HPC customers to come back in to the SPARC umbrella thereby making use of the Solaris OS - with an unparalleled software stack, ISV support and 7-year binary compatibility.
This shows the bleeding edge innovation that Sun has in SPARC64 servers, UltraSPARC T2 servers, x86 servers (think TACC Ranger and Tokyo Tech's TSUBAME), Storage and Software.
