The Sun Blade Blog
Live From ISC in Dresden, Germany
Last night, before a packed audience of press, analysts and show attendees, we unveiled the newest editions to the Sun Constellation System.
Doing the honors are Bjorn Andersson, Director of HPC, and Marc Hamilton, VP of Systems Practice.
On display are a Sun Constellation System with the 1U high Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24 (code named Nano Magnum) mounted on top. The mounting bracket is 2U, so there is room for a second switch, if desired. This switch, the most compact 72 node InfiniBand switch in the market, is the entry point to the line. Leveraging the same 12X cable technology as the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456 (code named Magnum) that was unveiled last year, it boasts one third the number of cables required of competing products – which means faster time to deployment and reduced complexity.
On the table in front of the Sun Constellation System is a Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24 and below it is a model of TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas), the first Sun Constellation System installation.
Also on display is the new Sun Blade X6450 server module, which was code named Hercules. This is a 4-socket Intel Xeon blade server with 24 DIMM slots, 50% more capacity than competing products. Configure this in a Sun Constellation System and you get 7.37Tflops of peak performance per rack...not too shabby!
Proudly showing off these newest additions are yours truly with Bjorn Andersson. This serves as proof to my manager that I really did attend the show, so hopefully now he will approve my expense report! ☺
Posted at 10:02AM Jun 18, 2008 by Lisa Robinson Schoeller in Sun | Comments[2]
That's the most beautiful blade I've ever seen.
Posted by Johnathan on June 18, 2008 at 07:09 PM PDT #
Johnathan, I can see that you are a man with impeccable taste! Those who visited our booth would agree with you as they were impressed with the density and cleanliness of the design.
Posted by Lisa Robinson Schoeller on June 19, 2008 at 03:57 PM PDT #