The Computer Museum Muenchen is proud to announce that we now have a Sun Enterprise 10000 ready for you. This Saturday, March 3rd 2007, the machine will be online for the first time and be happy to serve your user requests. The publicly accessible domain of our Enterprise 10000 consists of 56 Sun UltraSparc II CPUs and 56 GB main memory. More details about our Enterprise 10000 can be found here:
Some details about the history of that machine:
The Enterprise 10000, or Starfire (a development codename also used for marketing purposes) was a high-end multiprocessor datacenter server capable of up to 64 UltraSPARC-II processors. This was largely designed by Cray Research's Business Systems Division as a successor to the Cray Superserver 6400. After Cray was acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1996, this division was sold on to Sun and the Starfire launched (as the Ultra Enterprise 10000) in 1997. The Starfire has an impressively long pedigree; the CS6400 itself was the follow-on to the Cray S-MP, which was in turn developed from the FPS Computing Model 500 minisupercomputer and its ancestor, the Celerity 6000.

The Starfire was based around the fault-tolerant Gigaplane-XB processor/memory interconnect. Like the X000 and X500 series servers, the Starfire incorporated many high-availability features, including the ability to be partitioned into multiple virtual machines or "domains", each running its own instance of Solaris. The Starfire was the first server from any vendor to exceed 2000 on the TPC-D 300 GB benchmark. Starfire systems were used by a number of high-profile customers during the "dot-com" boom, including eBay, and typically sold for well over $1 million for a fully-configured system. [ Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise ]

If you have any additional questions about this machine, direct them to
mail-AT-cray-cyber.org, we will be happy to answer you.

If you open an account (free), they'll even let you play around with a Cray-X/MP