Sun Announces New Additions to HPC Portfolio for Divisional and Supercomputing Environments at ISC 2008
At the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, this week (June 17th-20th), Sun announced additions to its high performance computing portfolio. These new offerings meet a wider range of customer needs for powerful computing – from small-scale departmental deployments to the largest supercomputer, within research labs and corporations.
New offerings include:
New offerings include:
- New, expanded Sun Constellation System configurations designed to let customers take advantage of superscale technologies, starting at the departmental level and up. These additions enable customers to scale from a single rack at approximately 7 Tflops to over 2 Pflops within the same, compatible architecture – making it possible to deploy a scalable high-performance cluster in any datacenter.
- A new blade server for HPC and enterprise applications, the Sun Blade X6450 Server Module. The new blade server is powered by four Intel Xeon 7000 series processors; runs Solaris, Linux, Windows or VMware; and has 50% more memory capacity than competitive blade servers from HP, IBM and Dell, making it an ideal, energy-efficient platform for virtualization and applications in industries such as manufacturing, energy and financial services.
- New Open Storage products and solutions to help customers handle explosive data growth at new levels of economics, reliability, integrity and performance, while saving up to 90% of the costs vs. proprietary storage.
- New, powerful open source software and development tools that enable customers to simplify installation, create and optimize applications and easily manage their HPC clusters.
