Sun's new IB switches
Friday Jun 20, 2008
Sun is talking more about its IB switches. The large-scale switch is called the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456. You may have seen its internal Sun code name "Magnum."
Sun uses some of these highlights about the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456:
- Ideally suited for the Sun Blade 6048 modular system to deliver an open PetaScale architecture
- Highly scalable supporting up to four Sun Datacenter Switches and up to 13,824 server nodes
- Replaces 300 discrete InfiniBand switches and thousands of cables with a single core switch
- A 3:1 reduction of physical ports and cables for server connectivity
The smallest IB switch is called the Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24. You may have seen its internal Sun code name "NanoMagnum."
Sun uses some of these highlights about the Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24:
- When combined with the Sun Blade 6048 modular system, this 1RU 19" InfiniBand switch delivers a high performance switching solution for two up to 288 blade servers
- Extremely low latency using industry-standard IB transport, and commodity processors from AMD, Intel, and Sun
- Substitutes competitive 12RU solutions and hundreds of cables with 1/3 number of cables and only occupies up to four rack units for clusters of up to 288 blade servers
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